Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England, is playing hide-and-seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave-ship sailing to the new World... In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' Are enslaved by black people - bernardine evaristo has created a thought-provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde roots brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.