Signed by author in pencil. Shelf wear and crease to jacket.

Shackled for a time out of time; standing at the top of 199 steps in historical Levuka, Fiji, Ginger considers herself a remnant of distorted family legends that include slavery in a British colony. No-one has told her the whole of it. Yet, she has it in her veins as if it were blood seeking a body, and she tries to ignore the mocking tevoro. She considers how the world came to Fiji and how there is a story yet to share, perhaps one best kept quiet. Ginger entreats the reader to a story, to two stories told in one breath, beginning with a 19th century narrative that skims and festers about the Logan family-plantation owners living in Yasi Bay. This novel is an uncompromising family saga allowing two stories to breath with their own rhythms, dialects, characters, setting and style. Overarching questions pervade: Is she mad? What is the place the great-great-grandmother who was captain of a slaving ship? Can she claim the power or should she be ashamed, crouching under her own life's struggles? What of the romances and the plantation; the recurrences in her own life?