New York: Harlem River Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of the black experience in Britain, as soon through the eyes of the second generation. It "follows the lives of the Erskine family who, like thousands of others, left Jamaica in the 1950s hoping for a better life in England. Once there, they do find work easily and, despite racial prejudice, prosper, soon buying a house and a car. But Esme, a bitter woman whose hard childhood has soured her, quarrels with Ray, treats her children harshly, even abusively, and the marriage falls apart." 261 pp. ISBN: 0-863162487.