Koroleva ostrova

Rozhdennaya v rabstve na kroshechnom karibskom ostrove Montserrat, Doroti Kirvan sumela vykupit' svobodu u svoego otca — irlandskogo plantatora, a potom dobilas' osvobozhdeniya sestry i materi. Cenoy neveroyatnyh usiliy ey udalos' stat' bogatoy i vliyatel'noy zhenschinoy, vladelicey domov i zemel', ot saharnyh plantaciy Dominiki i Barbadosa do roskoshnogo otelya v Demerare na yuzhnoamerikanskom kontinente. Eto rasskaz o real'noy istoricheskoy figure — zhenschine, sumevshey probit' sebe put' naverh v chudovischnyh usloviyah rabstva i kolonializma, zhenschine, ne boyavsheysya lyubit' i ne ostanavlivavsheysya ni pered chem radi lyubimyh.