But as her dresses begin to arouse competition and envy in town, causing old resentments to surface, it becomes clear that Tilly's mind is set on a darker design: exacting revenge on those who wronged her, in the most spectacular fashion. Through her fashion business, her friendship with Sergeant Farrat-the town's only policeman, who harbors an unusual passion for fabrics-and a budding romance with Teddy, the local football star whose family is almost as reviled as hers, she finds a measure of grudging acceptance. The author has redrawn the map of the world as we know it.
In this world, 'Whytes' are the slaves and 'Aphrikans' the masters. From the title alone, it's clear that this novel is playing with our perceptions. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar. In Blonde Roots, Benardine Evaristos latest novel, an alternate universe exists in which Aphrikans (Africans/Blacks) are the dominant race and the slave trade imports Europans (Europeans/Whites). Blonde Roots is the tale of Doris, an intelligent young woman who is enslaved to Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, a powerful absentee sugar baron and former slave trader. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture-now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo WeavingĪfter twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child.
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