The Pirate's Daughter (Paperback) by Margaret Cezair-Thompson

from Vidalia

May, along with, evidently, a potential flock of others, is the illegitimate daughter of Errol Flynn and the stunningly beautiful, 16-year-old Ida. The first part of the book is Ida's story while the rest follows May. Pirate's Daughter is about women (and girls) in love, self-discovery, race rela...

from Cariola

I wasn't sure at first about this book's "hook"--the idea that one of the main characters was the illegitimate daughter of film star Errol Flynn. Fortunately, Flynn's image--on film and in the minds of his lover, daughter, and friends--hovers in the background of the novel, a representative of a ...

from Litfan

The Pirate's Daughter is a fairly long novel, clocking in at nearly 400 pages, but by the end you're wishing for even more. Within the pages lie romance, intrigue, mystery, loss and redemption. The novel is deeper than what the jacket description would lead one to believe. More than the story of ...

from RoseCityReader

The Pirate's Daughter spans generations of a Jamaican family, focusing first on Ida Joseph who, as a teenager, has an affair with aging movie star Errol Flynn and bears his daughter May Flynn, the focus of the second half. Usually, I find novels using real people as characters to be irritating, a...

from Booknose

I found this book to well written and compulsively readable, the addition of Errol Flynn in the plot is interesting but the real star is May, the child that he sires with a teenage Jamaican girl and leaves to fend for herself. The book is at once heartbreaking, breathtakingly beautiful and hopefu...