Pushing through the Darkness

" After a much-appreciated meal, Clementine seemed to have renewed energy. "What's the next stop on our pilgrimage?" she asked. "Pilgrimage?" asked Christophe. Taking his hand in hers, Clementine said: "Do you know, Chris? I really feel as though I'm on a pilgrimage. I feel as though I have set out, not so much on a honeymoon as a voyage of discovery, discovery of myself, and discovery of my family. I have the strange feeling that everything was preordained and that the different pieces of the puzzle are just falling into place. Have you ever thought of life as a great jigsaw puzzle?" " Pushing through the Darkness is a novel about family life and its areas of misunderstanding, but also one about the Caribbean and its dramas, and the upheavals of history - a triple perspective which makes of this work a sensitive walk along the paths of Caribbean memory