Beka Lamb

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Beka Lamb
Author Zee Edgell
Country Flag of Belize Belize
Language English
Genre(s) Historical, Young adult novel
Publisher Heinemann (Caribbean Writers Series)
Publication date 1982
Media type Print
Pages 172 pp (paperback)
ISBN ISBN 978-0-435-98844-9
Followed by In Times Like These

Beka Lamb is the debut novel from Belizean writer Zee Edgell, published in 1982 as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series. It won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1983 and was one of the first novels from Belize to gain international recognition. Deals with social insecurity, racial prejudice and the rule of the consecutive church in a small town.


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Beka is very understanding towards Toycie