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The Stirring of the Water A Novel of Four Sisters
Paperback
Series: The Stirring of the Water, Book 1
ISBN13: 9781919414201
Publisher: K.L.D.W Publishing
Published: Mar 5 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Far from home. Finding family. Becoming whole.
They were not born sisters.
Three women meet on a journey from Jamaica to England, strangers at first, yet something in their spirits draws them together. By the time they arrive, a bond has already begun to form.
But it is in a house in Stoke Newington, under the watchful strength of Rose, the matriarch who has learned how to build from very little, that their lives truly intertwine.
Four women. Four different paths. One shared space.
Within those walls, laughter comes easily, friendships deepen, and a new kind of family begins to take shape. Their differences of personality, upbringing, complexion, and hair do not divide them, but reveal the many layers of who they are.
Yet life beyond the house is not as welcoming.
Through harsh words, cold silences, and everyday encounters, they are forced to face both the realities of racism and the quieter tensions carried within their own community, hairism and colourism shaping unspoken questions of worth, identity, and belonging that cannot be ignored.
And still, they rise.
Building, working, creating, making something from little and nothing, with a resilience that refuses to be broken.
The Stirring of the Water is more than a story of migration. It is a story of women becoming sisters, of strength forged in shared lives, and of overcoming every kind of struggle, both from the world outside, and the truths within.
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