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“Lally Brown has written yet another entertaining book about life on an island most people only dream about. Read it and be transported into another world.” Terry Waite CBE It was the stuff of dreams. A job offer to the idyllic Caribbean paradise playground of the Turks and Caicos Islands. But there were complications. As a family we were well established in our little Sussex village. Between us, hubby and I were on all the local committees and involved in every aspect of village life. We had a pony and a flock of sheep. Was it right to uproot the family and jet off to the Caribbean for...

Romp through the Seventies Caribbean with this light-hearted autobiography. Have you ever felt there must be more to life than this? It was the early Seventies and my husband and I were trapped in the numbing bondage of nine to five jobs. We were young, impulsive and thirsting for new experiences. Throwing caution to the winds we sold our new home and bought tickets on a banana boat to the West Indies. This is the story of our adventures. From Trinidad and Tobago to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Anecdotes include gambling with a Princess and a Baroness, Army mutiny and trial for ...

I remember a poster pinned to the wall in the Departure Lounge of the British Virgin Islands airport. A beautiful picture of a sun kissed, white, palm-fringed beach lapped by a dazzling blue sea. The words read “Feel our sand between your toes and you’ll always return”. My toes had tickled the soft warm sand of Tortola for two years (see my book ‘High and Dry in the BVI’) until circumstances changed and my husband and I returned to the UK to start new lives. That poster haunted me. But after seven long years our dreams of returning to our beloved island were fading. We had a house...