The Book of Night Women - Marlon James

A powerful & excellently written story about a slave girl in late 18th-century Jamaica.  Her voice draws you in and makes you care about what happens to her in the compelling and dramatic narrative, but despite the promise of one reviewer that the book "whispers rather than shouts its horrors" I am ashamed to say that I found the constant random brutality too much and would describe this book as interesting rather than enjoyable.