To Janie Starck's grandmother both history and personal experience have shown (in her much quoted phrase) that 'De nigger woman is de mule ah de world' and the romantic dreams that Janie aspires to are what got them into trouble in the first place.

Married at sixteen, Janie soon finds that wedded bliss is just as lonely and confining as her former life, and the world is to hold more mystery - and men - before she learns that husbands are just things to 'drape her dreams over'. And when she finally meets the man of her dreams, the man who will truly liberate her, he offers not diamonds but a packet of flowering seeds.

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Published 23/01/1986

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