Pamela R Haynes

Spread your Wings and Fly” is the slightly off-key tale of Andrew Walcott, an eight-year-old boy born at a time of impending social and political turbulence in his native Barbados, a small Caribbean island in the North Atlantic Ocean. Andrew is left by his mother, Monica, in the care of her older sisters Shirley and Darlene, when she leaves to join his father in London in pursuit of the means of a better quality of life, with the intention of returning home in a few years. The story follows Andrew through the weeks leading up to his departure for England - the then perceived mother land - to join his natural parents, who like many others have come to realize that their overseas adventure will have to be a long-term project.