Visit Floella's Sea of Tears page on her website One of six children, Floella Benjamin was born in Trinidad but was brought up in England. This exciting adventure story explores issues involved in migration and feelings of loneliness and being trapped in a place where one doesn't want to be. Devlin is fascinated by her stories of England and agrees to help her stowaway on a ship to get back there. Rescued by a fisherman and his son, Jasmine begins school and encounters more prejudice and dislike because she is English, until she is saved from a group of bullies and befriended by the fisherman's son, Devlin. In Barbados her initial attempts to make friends with local teenagers meet with ridicule and she steals a motor yacht in a foolish attempt to get back to England. Her friends all think it's a wonderful opportunity, but all she kws is that she will miss them and the only life she has kwn. Jasmine's parents are increasingly worried about the dangers to their precious only daughter in South London so they have decided to move back, after 20 years, to Barbados.
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