Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah builds on the author's first collection of short stories Baby Mother and the King of Swords, which won a Pushcart Prize, was translated into German as Der Schwertkonig, and was praised by the London Financial Times as ‘an assured fictional debut'. Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah strengthens the reputation of Goodison's prose fiction as a worthy complement to her poetry.