![]() ![]() 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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