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Carol Mitchell - What Start Bad A Mornin'

In this episode, first-time novelist Carol Mitchell discusses the ideas and experiences out of which grew this novel, What Start Bad A Mornin’.

The story she tells us of Amaya Lin, a Jamaican living and working in the United States, who is leaving the office where she works with her lawyer husband and his partner, rushing off to gather in her elderly aunt for the evening, when a younger woman approaches Amaya’s car, saying she is Amaya’s sister.

But Amaya thinks that is not possible. Since she was 17, she has had no family other than after she married - her husband and their son.

Why would…

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