Courtney Goldsmith

Early in How to Leave the House, Mrs Pandey, the former secondary school teacher of our hero Natwest, suggests Natwest is being too critical of a work of art; “What would happen if you treated every work of art as perfect, and then worked backwards?”…

‘The history and culture of Trinidad, originally called Iëre, Land of the Hummingbirds, by its people, is deftly combined with Farrell’s personal experiences of childhood on the tropical island, and the trauma carried by generations of citizens…