Introduction
Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England, raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of film director Matthew Vaughn. She edited Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story (2008), In My Father's Shade (2004), and Slipstream (2000).
She published her debut novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award.
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