Success always comes at a price

The first in her family to attend secondary school.

Laetitia Johnson, Lacey for short, must leave behind her beloved Caribbean village home and move to town to live with her father, whom she barely knows. This turns out to be just the first of many difficult challenges that Lacey endures for the sake of her new life. But it is not until she is faced with the most wrenching change of all that Lacey may reach a place where she is able to choose the future that's right for her.

Merle Hodge is also the author of the novel Crick Crack, Monkey. She lives in St. Augustine Trinidad.