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What is On the Way Back about?
A British Businessman Woos A Caribbean Woman—and Her Disapproving Family—in This “engrossing Novel” (insight). Nathaniel Jones, A Middle-aged Businessman From England, Travels To The Caribbean Island Of Anguilla To Spend A Fortnight On Holiday—and Finds Himself Captivated By A Brilliant And Beautiful Member Of The Local Community, Sheila Rawlingson. After A Secret, Intense Hundred-day Courtship, Nathaniel Proposes To Sheila, Whose Agreement To Marry This White Man Is Seen As A Betrayal By Her Family And Fellow Anguillans. Recognizing The Value Anguillan Society Places On Economic Projects, Nathaniel Attempts To Set Up An Airline Business To Gain The Support And Favor Of The Rawlingsons. He Sends For His Son, Dragon, To Travel To Anguilla And Cofound Dragon Wings, The Nation’s First Commercial Airline. Nathaniel, Dragon, And Sheila Turn To Her Uncle For Financial Backing. But Sheila’s Uncle Will Do His Best To Foil Nathaniel’s Best-laid Plans At Every Turn . . . “there Is Something For Every Reader In This Engrossing Novel Depicting The Complexities Of Inner And Outer Caribbean And Latin Lives—from The Seemingly Placid But Often Privately Turbulent World Of A Small Island Such As An
- Author
- Montague Kobbé
- Publisher
- Akashic Books, Ltd.
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781617754531
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
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