Mama Was A Princess

About the Book

Jada Longbridge, the only daughter born to a teenaged peasant girl, Amelia, and the older but dashing Jake Longbridge, a married father of six and a member of the declining white Jamaican plantocracy.  Jada grew up with a protective mother who kept her sheltered.  Jada wore an air of superiority. At an early age, her mother instilled in her that she was special, different, and better than those in the peasant class community in which they lived.

Privy to a tidy inheritance, left by Jake Longbridge for his illegitimate daughter, Amelia sent Jada away to charm school where she was taught singing, deportment, and fancy sewing.  Jada was being prepared for her station in life; her mother had considered her ‘middle class’ and was set on marrying her off to the right man.

On holidays, Jada would come home. It was on one of these trips home that Warren, a local village boy, had seduced the lovely Jada.  Pregnant, for a poor village boy, while betrothed to Dr. Jordan Willoughby who lived in the prestigious Cumberland suburbs, many miles away, Jada’s world had come crashing.

For 69 years Jada’s heart had throb for someone else, she was hurting deep inside but she had concealed the hurt. Now gravely ill and lying in a long-term care facility, she revealed it to her middle-aged children. But will they believe her — after all they had only known a loving father who was no longer around to defend himself.  Had she risk losing her children at a time when she needed them most?

About the Author

Ivet Graham-Morgan, a former school teacher and Administrative Clerk, is a divorced mother of two adult children and a grandmother.  Born and raised in rural Jamaica, Ivet grew up among the rolling hills of central Jamaica. She spent hours playing in the unspoiled beauty of the sprawling countryside — mountain springs, wetlands, natural rivers and ponds, tall grasses, voluminous trees, and prolific shrubs.  Running carefree with siblings and village children through cocoa bean and coffee groves, yanking sugar cane from fields, and taunting the wildlife were all a part of life growing up in rural Jamaica. Ivet has enjoyed writing since grade school and even back then, her writing reflected the environment in which she grew up.

Ivet is presently working on another novel:  The Speckled Rose.