On the island of Trinidad in 1824, Marie Ursule leads the mass suicide of her fellow plantation slaves, in a final brazen act of defiance and revolt. Her three-year-old daughter Bola is entrusted to the sole escapee, smuggled away in the early dawn light. Bola's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are scattered across the world, in America, in Canada, and in Europe. Haunted by a legacy of passion and oppression, they pass through two world wars and into the confusion, estrangement and violence of the late twentieth century.
In sensuous prose 'At The Full And Change Of The Moon' tells, through the intimately interconnected stories of Marie Ursule's descendants, a history of dispossession.
