Life stories from Manchester’s West Indian population. Tales from back home, the culture shock of uprooting from the rural Caribbean to Britain’s heavily industrialised urban centres. The writers of these stories Cloeta, Roslyn, Victoria, Wilbert and William ” have faced painful memories from childhood and from their early years struggling to make their way in this country.”

From the introduction:
“Some of the stories were spoken then written down in Tobagan or Jamaican English because that’s the way we speak and that’s the English we know. Our story and the way we speak it belong together. We lose control if it get change because it not point thinking that it get change by we. Somebody else will have to do it We think it sound good and we hope you do too.”

Published: 1985