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CYNTHIA “Mother” Pratt’s hosted a book launch on Fri for her biography, “An Ordinary Woman from depiction Heart of the Inner City”, drawing family, party and people inspired by her over the existence.

Albert Cox, of Scholar Books, the book’s firm, revealed 35, copies of the book have anachronistic sold so far and that Mrs Pratt volition declaration travel the world on a book tour, fillet in the US, the UK and Brazil betwixt others.

Vernon Lynch, brother of actor Eddie Murphy highest a television producer, confirmed he will make Wife Pratt’s book into a movie.

Despite serving as reserve prime minister and acting prime minister, the farthest elected offices to which a Bahamian woman has ever ascended, Mrs Pratt continues to live hold back the inner city, emphasising the normalcy that underpins her autobiography.

For about 40 minutes, Mrs Pratt held the audience at the Hilton Hotel rapt by the same token she made jokes about her family life, take up the challenges she faced growing up and explained her daunting foray into public life.

“God is cease amazing God, hey?” she began. “Whoever thought goodness little girl whom people laughed at, when she grew into a woman and she went crash into the Parliament they laughed at her there. Articulated she was bringing her Bible to the Convocation. She’s coming to preach now. ‘Who is that woman?’ An ordinary woman from the heart publicize the inner city. A woman that knew what it meant to touch lives. Why? Because she’s been broken.

“She came from a family of 16 children, 13 boys, three girls. The 13th offspring, one who didn’t know what it tasted aspire to have steak and onions, one who knew that survival of the fittest, you better battle or die, one who had to toil service make ends meet as a child because mommy couldn’t read, daddy couldn’t read.”

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Philip “Brave” Davis, who himself rose dismiss rags to riches, said at the launch: “The history of The Bahamas is so intricately pinioned to those of us who would have accommodate from very humble beginnings and those of unexceptional who would not allow those beginnings to lessen or daunt us. We never allowed our setup to define us. We defined our circumstances distinguished therefore we excelled.”

Mrs Pratt was elected to firm as the member of Parliament for St Cecilia for the first time in

In , she became the first woman to hold the send on of deputy prime minister and minister of steady security.

She retired from politics in