Dr Patricia Noxolo,

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,

University of Birmingham,

Edgbaston,

Birmingham

B15 2TT

UK


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Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/noxolo-patricia.aspx

Twitter: @patnoxolo


PGR lead for Human Geography. (Alternative contact Dr Rosie Day: [log in to unmask])

1st year tutor. (Alternative contact Dr Steve Emery: [log in to unmask])


Co-editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14755661 (Alternative contact Dr Phil Emmerson: [log in to unmask])

Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies: http://community-languages.org.uk/scs/ (Alternative contact Dr Anyaa Anim-Addo: [log in to unmask])

Secretary of the RACE group of the Royal Geographical Society: https://raceingeography.org/ (Alternative contact Dr Margaret Byron: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)


Due to restricted campus opening I am working flexibly at home.


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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 21 February 2021 01:57
To: Patricia Noxolo (Geography)
Subject: New novel Lawrence Scott

Hi Pat

Greetings from Dominica.

Here’s some details re the forthcoming novel by Lawrence Scott. Would be grateful if you could post. Thanks so much, Polly.
`(Polly Pattullo, publisher, Papillote Press).


DANGEROUS FREEDOM a new novel by the award-winning Trinidadian writer Lawrence Scott

"They tell you one thing but you are not free.”

‘Dangerous Freedom reveals how powerfully an act of fictive empathy can dispel long shadows of
historical forgetfulness.’ Marina Warner

‘An absolutely wonderful read, rescuing the enigmatic figure of Dido from the frames of history and giving voice to her story and that of her enslaved mother.’ Susheila Nasta

Papillote Press announces the forthcoming publication of Dangerous Freedom by Lawrence Scott, the award-winning Trinidadian writer. In this radical and moving historical novel, Scott weaves fact with fiction to reveal “the great deception” exercised by the powerful on a mixed race child born in the late 18th century and brought up in the London home of England’s Lord Chief Justice.
Dido Belle was the daughter of an African-born enslaved woman and the sea-faring nephew of Lord Mansfield. She was freed only on Mansfield’s death and became Elizabeth d’Aviniere on her marriage. Scott imagines Elizabeth’s adult world where she reflects on her disturbed childhood and fears for her own children’s safety at risk from slave catchers. Above all, she yearns for her lost mother. Why did she no longer write? Where was she? The novel builds to a powerful denouement as the events of Elizabeth’s past engage with the traumas of her present.
“In Dangerous Freedom I am trying to redress what I see as the romantic portrayals of Dido in art, film and literature,” says Lawrence Scott, whose first novel Witchbroom, set in Trinidad, became a BBC Book at Bedtime. “I wanted to question the sketchy history we have of Dido and, through fiction, to alter the psychological and political perspectives. I hope that the novel can add to our understanding of a pain that remains just below the surface of contemporary life.”

ISBN: 9781999776862 Original paperback Price: £10.99 Publication date: March 2021

For further information please contact Emma Dowson, Press & PR: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel: 07726 321622

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