Sweet Home, Jamaica: Volume Two

Sweet Home, Jamaica, Volume Two continues the saga of Michelle Freeman and her extended family as the story moves into the 1980s where Michelle has become a young woman with ambitions of becoming a famous writer and to live in Jamaica, her homeland. It follows the story of her progress and the path her life takes to the fulfilment of her dreams. Join her in her travels to hot sunny climes as she integrates with her birth family and the local community as a resident rather than as a visitor to the island. Her extraordinary family causes tears and laughter, but through it all Michelle learns to build a life for herself in the land of her birth and becomes accepted into the local community. It is not an easy ride as she discovers that her beloved island is not the idyllic paradise she had envisioned it to be. A bitter-sweet story of the intricacies of human relations over time and distance.

CLAUDETTE BECKFORD-BRADY was born in Old Harbour, Jamaica. In 1964 at the age of seven she joined her parents in Gloucester, England. After leaving school in 1973 she held various clerical and administrative positions before moving to London in 1976, where she joined the British civil service. In 1981 she left the civil service and went to London Borough of Lambeth where she progressed to the level of Personnel & Training Officer. She lived in Brixton, South London from 1977 to 1990 when she left the UK to return to Jamaica where she now resides. Over the years Claudette has won a number of awards for her short stories; SWEET HOME, JAMAICA is her first full length book and this current edition is published in two volumes, although there is a single volume edition which incorporates both Volume 1 and Volume two in a single cover.