"My relationship with my mother was always intense and often traumatic, and I see now that it, along with my experience of the power struggle between men and women, as observed first in my parents' troubled union, was largely responsible for who I was to become," writes Beverley Anderson-Manley in The Manley Memoirs, in which she unveils the details of her life, including marriage to Jamaica's most populist prime minister.

Published by Ian Randle Publishers, The Manley Memoirs will be serialised in The Gleaner beginning Sunday, May 4.