Sunlight on Sweet Water Piers Amodia Her rhythms spring from the

Her rhythms spring from the page

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Douglas Dunn

tea-breaks and sickies

Sunlight on Sweet Water Piers Amodia Her rhythms spring from theBeryl Gilroy transports the reader back to the Guyanese village of her childhood over sixty years ago to meet such characters as Mr Dewsbury the Dog Doctor, Mama Darlin' the village midwife and Mr Cumberbatch the Chief Mourner. It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared", and perhaps for this reason, the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity