HuracanFollowing her parents divorce, fifteen year old Leigh McCaulay left Jamaica for New York City. Fifteen years later, after her mothers death she returns to the island, in its 50th year of independence, to find her estranged father and the family secrets he holds. Back home, but a white Jamaican in a black Jamaica, she struggles to come to terms with her familys part in the slave trade. Loosely based on the authors own family history, Huracan explores

The mud below the house’s stilts

well deserves a wider audience

Berkan Karpat and Zafer Senocak

Lee finds himself on random circling routes along country roads

the Angry Young Men

"Compelling and emotionally affecting

It includes articles

playwright and stage director

and poems of deep praise

and on the arrival of a new grandchild

From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End

and find unexpected moments of humour and buoyancy