From stationmaster’s daughter to wife of one of Jamaica’s most charismatic prime ministers Beverley Manley’s life has been an odyssey.

As a young girl, starved of her mother’s love because she was darker than her siblings, and forced to do housework while her sisters relaxed, Beverley was a modern-day Cinderella. Told incessantly that she was good for nothing, she defied her mother’s prophecy, and triumphed over her ‘ordinary’ beginnings first as a model in London and later becoming a household name in local radio, television and on stage.