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Lynda Edwards
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Lynda Edwards was born in Jamaica, coming of age during a turbulent time in the island’s history. Like most Caribbean people, she is a born storyteller inspired by the unconventional family she comes from, the incongruity of her upbringing, and the island itself.
Lynda now lives in Orlando with her husband of twenty-four years...who says she is still his most expensive souvenir. Redemption Songs was born from a nightmare. After waking her husband and describing the terrifying dream to him, he advised her to write it down, then rolled over and went back to sleep. His advice resulted in her first fictional novel and him getting some well-deserved rest.
Lynda Edwards' books
Redemption Songs
After the death of her American husband, Josephine Myers Blakely has moved back to Jamaica, the land of her birth. Married at nineteen and widowed at forty, Jo is adrift in a sea of grief and loss. A chance meeting with a shadowy family member sets her on a path to help her family atone for generations of sin...or perish with them in the fire of their own destruction. She must find the strength to walk between two worlds, reconciling them, not only for her family’s survival but for hers as well.
Redemption Songs is a complex and compelling distillation of imagination and experience, merged with the author’s love of her birthplace. As entertaining as this book is to read, it is a modern-day tome with a deeper message of love, loss and redemption that makes it a worthy read.
Friendship Estate
Jamaica in the late 1700s and early 1800s was at a crossroads. The abolition of slavery was on the horizon. In the colonies, the white and black races had been mixing for generations. They had formed a new society with a culture born of oppression, harboring a deep desire to mix freely while charting a new course for themselves by taking the reins of freedom into their own hands. From the plantations of Jamaica to the gilded halls of Georgian England, a captivating array of characters inspire us to share their dreams, their passions, and their intimacy.
This utopian fantasy transcends history’s oppressive grasp and conjures up a romantic age where anything is possible. The legacy of bitterness and resentment that has poisoned the politics of future generations is rewritten. Instead, transporting us to a world with renewed faith in the possibilities that lie ahead. By showing us what might have been, Friendship Estate points the way to what might still be. If only…