“Gone to Drift is a Jamaican coming-of-age story: realistic, often funny and deeply touching.” Pamela Mordecai
Gone to Drift tells the story
of Lloyd, a 12-year-old boy from Kingston
and his search
for his beloved grandfather, Maas Conrad,
a fisherman who is lost at sea. Lloyd suspects
that his grandfather has witnessed an illegal capture
of dolphins for the tourist trade and that he has come to harm.
No one wants to help Lloyd except
for an uptown girl who studies
dolphins, his best friend Dwight
and a mad man called
Slowly on a sun-baked beach.
Interspersed with
Lloyd’s quest on land and sea is a second voice
- of Maas Conrad himself, who, unknown to Lloyd is alive but marooned on a rock. Gone to Drift is an exciting adventure story in which Lloyd discovers that the enemies
of his grandfather - and of the Caribbean
Sea that he loves are closer to home than he could ever imagine.
Gone to Drift is built on McCaulay's 2012 Regional Commonwealth prizewinning short story, The Dolphin Catchers. McCaulay, the author of two acclaimed earlier novels, Dog-Heart (2010) and Huracan (2012), is now working
on a memoir.
Gone to Drift will be distributed to schools and libraries throughout Jamaica - and the
wider Caribbean - as part of the prize awarded
by the Canadian charity,
CODE. This is an annual awarded given for Young Adult
novels written by Caribbean authors, in partnership with Trinidad’s Bocas
Lit Fest.
A lifelong
resident of Kingston, Diana McCaulay founded
the Jamaica Environment Trust in 1991 and still serves
as its CEO and guiding force.
She is also a former
Gleaner columnist. She says: “As reading
meant so much to me as a teenager,
I’m hoping Gone to Drift will
be read and enjoyed by many Caribbean
young people. I wanted
to pay tribute to our long tradition of fishermen, and to look at
what the loss of traditional livelihoods and the depletion of fisheries in the Caribbean means to us.”
Gone to Drift was placed second in the 2015 Burt Prize for Caribbean Literature.
Publication date: 29 February 2016 Price: £7.99
ISBN: 9780993108617
Papillote Press
23 Rozel Road, London SW4 0EY, UK tel: 0207 720 5983
Trafalgar, Dominica tel: 295 1563
email info@papillotepress.co.uk
www.papillotepress.co.uk
Publication date: 29 February 2016 Price: £7.99
ISBN: 9780993108617
Papillote Press
23 Rozel Road, London SW4 0EY, UK tel: 0207 720 5983
Trafalgar, Dominica tel: 295 1563
email info@papillotepress.co.uk
www.papillotepress.co.uk
