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‘...Having spent five years managing the tiny island of Highborne Cay, Exuma, in the Bahamas the author paints a vivid, heartfelt and surprising picture of Caribbean life.

To say that there’s never a dull moment on Highborne Cay—where Albury and her husband have left their comfortable, big-city life in Nassau to work 12 to 14 hour days in a place reachable only by seaplane or boat—is a vast understatement. In the first 50 pages, armed robbers terrorize this native Bahamian couple, a guest nearly chops off his fingers in a fish-cleaning accident and a woman docks at the marina with her husband’s dead body aboard her boat. If not for its highly specific details, this exotic memoir easily could be mistaken for fiction.

While a boatful of stranded Haitians and an illiterate employee lend this white author’s memoir a racial overtone, to her credit she doesn’t flinch from the uncomfortable truth of the Caribbean’s inequality and desperate poverty. From watching a Sperm whale being devoured by tiger sharks to staying on the alert for drug runners, Albury reveals that island life is less a breeze than a whirlwind.

Just another fascinating day in paradise...’

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“...Albury's fascinating account about a historical island in the Central Bahamas is a treasured and most interesting read...”

Sir Geoffrey A.D. Johnstone, KCMG, former Member of The Bahamas House of Assembly and Deputy to the Governor General.

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