At 2 p.m. today, Bookophilia will be hosting a book reading and signing event with author Rachel Manley, author of Horses in Her Hair.

This is a special opportunity to hear the author discuss her journey as a writer, share passages from the book and respond to questions in a very intimate setting.

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Rachel Manley is author of the memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, which won the Governor General's Award for Non-fiction in 1997, and Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers. She has also published three books of poetry and edited Edna Manley: The Diaries; a collection of her grandmother's journals.

Manley is a New York Public Library fellow, a Pierre Berton fellow, a Rockefeller Fellow (Bellagio), and a former Bunting fellow for literature at Radcliffe College. She serves on the creative writing faculty at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has won Jamaica's prestigious Centennial Medal for Poetry. Manley divides her time between Toronto and Jamaica. She has two sons, Drum and Luke.

The event takes place at 92 Hope Road, Kingston 6. It is free of charge and everyone is welcome.