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TAYLOR, SHARMA
Dr @ Independent
Bio
Sharma is an award-winning short story writer and novelist as well as a corporate attorney, who hails from Jamaica. She holds graduate degrees in law including a PhD in Copyright Law from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, obtained on a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her debut novel, WHAT A MOTHER'S LOVE DON'T TEACH YOU, is to be published in July 2022 in the UK and Commonwealth by Virago.
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Recent publications in Caribbean Studies
Presentation
What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
In my presentation I will address why I wrote the novel What A Mother's Love Don't Teach You' and why I set it in 1980s Jamaica during a period of political upheaval