{"product_id":"bishops-my-turbulent-colonial-youth-by-mona-williams-2028v","title":"Bishops: My Turbulent Colonial Youth by Mona Williams","description":"\u003cp\u003eI am older than three but younger than four years old. Mummy and I are alone and Mummy stands me up against the door:   Say what I tell you,  she directs me. Say - I will go to Bishops.   I gun go to Bishops, I parrot imperfectly in Creolese.   Nine years later the world seems a glittering prize to Mona. Having just won a national scholarship she is about to attend her country's most exclusive girls' school - Bishops.   No one, however, can comprehend or prepare her for the conflicts she is destined to face. She has become a poor, lower class, black outsider in a wealthy, white, class-conscious British colonial school. And she becomes suddenly aware of the absence of her father, a man she last saw as an infant and of whom her mother would not speak.   Set in the fifties of Elvis Presley and the fear of communism, this vibrant autobiography of writer Mona Williams captures her childhood and turbulent teenage years in strife-torn British Guiana, now Guyana.  Editorial Reviews  About the Author Mona Williams lives in Palmerston North, New Zealand and is the mother of two grown daughters. She was educated in Guyana and at Stanford University, California, USA, where she was a Fullbright and Ford Foundation scholar. Employed variously in radio, TV and education, she has a passionate interest in story-telling, writing and Caribbean dance.   A Story-teller for thirty years, her 1971 story-telling program Roots and Branches, produced by KQEDTV in San Francisco, won an Emmy. Annual story-telling tours during the school holidays have taken her to Hawaii, Australia, Israel and all around New Zealand. Now a New Zealand citizen, she lectures in English at Palmerston North Collece of Education. An author of children's stories, she visits schools under the Writers in Schools scheme.   Bishops was written during Mona Williams' Fellowship as 1993 Writer in Residence at the University of Waikato. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41835358158922,"sku":"2028v","price":13.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2028v.jpg?v=1764474464","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/bishops-my-turbulent-colonial-youth-by-mona-williams-2028v","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}