How Far We'Ve Come Av Joyce Efia Harmer

<B>A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as <I>The </I><I>Times </I>Children's Book of the Week.</B><BR/><BR/><I>Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.</I><BR/><BR/> Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she imagines escape. Meeting a strange boy who’s not quite of this world, she decides to put her trust in him. But Jacob is from the twenty-first century. Desperate to give Obah a better life, he takes her back with him. At first it seems like dreams really do come true – until the cracks begin to show and Obah sees that freedom comes at an unimaginable cost . . .<BR/><BR/> Hopeful and devastating, this powerful novel about equality, how far we’ve come, and how far we still hav