A fascinating autobiography and unique record of Barbadian life and architecture over almost 50 years. A large hard backed coffee table book of 160 pages, lavishly filled with over 400 paintings, photographs and drawings, many of them previously unpublished. It tells the story of a young Englishwomen who decided to leave the UK in the early fifties to seek her fortune as an artist, who bought a one-way ticket on a freighter to South America, who met her future husband on the very first night she arrived and who came to Barbados initially in 1956 as a result of a hurricane. It is also the colourful story of how she and her architect husband, Jimmy, in 1975 against all advice, embarked on building up the Best of Barbados Gift Shops to promote local handicraft, from their home in Barbados. Size: 12.75"w x 9.75"h, 176 pages, hard cover