One bright child - Patricia Cumper

In 1936, at the age of 13, Gloria is torn away from her island home of Jamaica when her socially ambitious mother decides her the best education money can buy. Forced to attend a grammar school in London, she must adapt to a landscape whose contours are both alien and intriguing. Throwing herself into work, she decides to pursue a career in law and is accepted to Cambridge University. Struggling with prejudice on account of her race and colour, she enters a mixed marriage with a penniless Englishman. These hardships, however, only serve to fuel the fire of her ambition.