For the Life of Laetitia

Set in the Caribbean, this novel tells how Laetitia, who has won a scholarship to the secondary school, leaves her village to live for at least part of the time in the city with her father and his family. The detail of family, school and relationships allows us to feel the strong emotional pulls upon Laetitia as she struggles to make her determined, individual way with her father and the teachers at school whose values are contrary to the ones imbued in her by her country-dwelling grandparents. This book finishes at Letitia's second term. I hope there's more to come.