1910, British Guiana, South America: Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father’s sugar-cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie along with her sister Johanna, have neither worries nor responsibilities, they are birds of paradise, protected from the poverty in the world around them.
But everything can change in a heartbeat. When Winnie falls in love with George Quint, the black post-office boy, from the other side, she slips into a double life. When she realises that her idyllic life is built upon the exploitation of others, soft-spoken Winnie becomes a rebel: against her privileged life, against society, against her own father.
PRAISE FOR THE SECRET LIFE OF WINNIE COX
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