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Rachel Manley (born 1955)[1] is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, England,[2] raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She was briefly married to George Albert Harley de Vere Drummond, father of film director Matthew Vaughn.^{[citation needed]}

She edited Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989.[3] She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1996).[4][5] She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story (2008), In My Father's Shade (2004), and Slipstream (2000).[6]

She published her debut novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017.[7] The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[8]

Selected bibliography

• A Light Left On (poetry), 1992

• Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (memoir), 1996

• Slipstream , 2000
• In My Father's Shade, 2004

• Horses in Her Hair: A Granddaughter's Story, 2008

• The Black Peacock (novel), 2017

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