Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings

After World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the ‘Mother Country’. Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond. The motives and back-stories of these West Indian people is a key part of the Windrush story. This powerful narrative reveals what happened on board that ship, which was packed with young, excited people who had never before left their parents, their parishes – let alone their islands.

320 pages