“ltpgtltstronggtPraise for ltemgtThe Pages of the SealtemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtHawks comingofage story follows a young girl whos left with her sisters on an unnamed Caribbean island in the 1960s under the care of their aunts and cousins after their mother sails to England in search of work as part of the socalled Windrush generationltpgtltpgtltstronggtltemgtGlobe and Mailltemgt The Globe 100ltstronggtltpgtltpgtA finely observed debutltpgtltpgtltstronggtEmily Donaldson ltemgtGlobe and MailltemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtThe writing is confident and precise evocative of the beauty of the Caribbean and full of sparkling observationltpgtltpgtltstronggtltemgtThe GuardianltemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtA moving portrayal of a young girls efforts to grow out of a state of melancholy and confusion and acquire selfconfidence and assertiveness despite her young ageltpgtltpgtltstronggtltemgtOttawa Review of BooksltemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtHawks prose is beautiful a lyrical and loving portrayal of an island and its people A unique scrappy tender bildungsromanltpgtltpgtltstronggtltemgtKirkus ReviewsltemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtltemgtThe Pages of the Sealtemgt a beautifully written and intimately imagined debut novel coming out of the Caribbean Anne Hawk weaves a story rarely told that of those left behind in the wake of migration to the motherland Intensely moving and lyrical here is a story of our times another piece of the mosaic of our fractured and remade Caribbean livesltpgtltpgtltstronggtMonique Roffey author of ltemgtThe Mermaid of Black ConchltemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtA stunning debut Its great to see a new author championing in fiction the unheard voice of a child left behind in the Caribbean migration story of the 1960s Beautifully told ltemgtThe Pages of the Sealtemgt will resonate for many thousandsltpgtltpgtltstronggtYvonne BaileySmith author of ltemgtThe Day I Fell Off My IslandltemgtltstronggtltpgtltpgtAn evocative and at times heartbreaking work of Caribbean fiction filled with the colours and vibrancy of the islands and invested with a deeply personal humanity In ltemgtThe Pages of the Sealtemgt Anne Hawk gives fresh form to the Windrush era and voice to its neglected narrativesltpgtltpgtltstronggtAnthony Joseph winner of the TS Eliot Prize for PoetryltstronggtltpgtltpgtWhat can I say except I think this is a great novel The story breaks your heart and at the very same time the writing heals it Anne Hawks vision is miraculously tenderly lucid Here is the other side of emigrationthe story of one of those left behind representing the stories of so many I cant think of a better depiction of the confusions and insights of girlhoodltpgtltpgtltstronggtToby Litt author of ltemgtPatienceltemgtltstronggtltpgt”