I’m grateful that Amazon and Createspace came into being just when I needed them. I got so many rejections in the traditional publishing route that I didn’t know how I could get this story into the world.
– I dreamed of it being this successful, but I didn’t expect it. Did you expect the adventure of Lisbeth and Mattie to be accepted so well by the readers? – Laila, Your book Yellow Crocus became huge hit. Land of Books got an opportunity so chat with Laila Ibrahim about Yellow Crocus, her publishing experience around the book, and the future projects. 4.6 stars in Amazon from almost 4800 reviews. They gave superb valuation of the story with av. The novel was published in 2010, and still is one of the most wanted books. To escape pressure from her family to repair her engagement, Elizabeth visits Matthew and asks him if he will marry her.Laila Ibrahim’s debut novel Yellow Crocus rocketed to the sky.
Elizabeth is horrified and tells him she will never marry him. When Elizabeth goes out to the garden, she finds Edward having sexual relations with a young slave girl. Cunningham asks Elizabeth to call Edward in from the garden. After a year of making wedding plans, a tea is held at the Cunningham estate for Elizabeth on her twenty-first birthday. Eventually, after some pressure from her family and friends, Elizabeth becomes engaged to Edward although she is in love with a young man named Matthew Johnson. More than a year later, Mattie runs away and is reunited with her husband and son.Įlizabeth attends various dances and social functions throughout her teenage years. Elizabeth gets word that Emmanuel has also escaped. He was able to escape because he wrote his own travel pass. Two weeks later, word comes that Samuel is missing. He then teaches the other children in the slave quarters.Īt the age of ten, Samuel is sold to another estate. She convinces him to wait.Īs Elizabeth gets older, and begins her lessons, Mattie asks her to teach Samuel how to read and write.
On a visit with her family, Mattie learns her husband, Emmanuel, wants to run away to Ohio. Mattie must leave her own child, Samuel, in order to take care of Elizabeth. Mattie is a field slave at Fair Oaks Estates who is assigned the task of being a wet nurse for newborn baby, Elizabeth Wainwright.
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