She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the Oxford University, and Yale University. She works, as an economist, in Kingston. She lives in the Blue Mountains.
Achievements
Her first novel, The Roads Are Down, won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers" Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean.
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.