The Missing Years

By Claudette Beckford-Brady

The Missing Years is the sequel to Beckford-Brady's first novel, Sweet Home, Jamaica which was published in two volumes in May 2007 by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie.

It continues the saga of Michelle Freeman and her extended family.

Michelle was born in Jamaica but raised in Britain. When she was nearly fourteen she had discovered a controversy surrounding her birth and learned that the woman raising her was not her mother. The discovery had started her on a quest to find some answers. The initial reunion with her biological mother was not the tear-jerker she had expected so when the families came together for the five-yearly family reunion emotions were running high.

Life for Michelle was already full, juggling a career as the co-owner of SmallRock Publications, plus family life, but things were about to be turned on their head. A bungled robbery, a dead youth and a usually devoted husband who has started staying out all night with no explanation… Is Michelle's husband getting too close to Delisia?

A poignant, heart-warming tale of family relationships and conflict resolution, spiced with fast-paced drama, The Missing Years is the sequel to Sweet Home, Jamaica and the story unfolds on the beautiful island of Jamaica.

Click here to read and excerpt from the Missing Years

About Claudette Beckford-Brady

Claudette Beckford-Brady was born in Old Harbour, Jamaica, in the West Indies. In 1964 at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Gloucester, England, where she attended Junior and Secondary school. On leaving school in 1973 she worked as a Sales Ledger clerk and a Telephonist/Receptionist, before moving to London in 1976, where she joined the civil service. In 1981 she moved to Lambeth Borough Council where she progressed to the level of Personnel and Training Officer. She lived in Brixton from 1977 to 1990, when she left the UK to return to Jamaica, where she now resides.

Claudette has won several awards for her short stories, and several have been published in the local press; Sweet Home Jamaica is her first full length book.

Sweet Home Jamaica by Claudette Beckford-Brady is available from Pegasus Publishers and Amazon

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