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A British businessman woos a Caribbean woman-and her disapproving family. Nathaniel Jones, a middle-aged businessman from England, travels to the Caribbean island of Anguilla to spend a fortnight on holiday-and finds himself captivated by a brilliant and beautiful member of the local community, Sheila Rawlingson. After a secret, intense hundred-day courtship, Nathaniel proposes to Sheila, whose agreement to marry this white man is seen as a betrayal by her family and fellow Anguillans. Recognizing the value Anguillan society places on economic projects, Nathaniel attempts to set up an airline business to gain the support and favor of the Rawlinson's. He sends for his son, Dragon, to travel to Anguilla and cofound Dragon Wings, the nation's first commercial airline. Nathaniel, Dragon, and Sheila turn to her uncle for financial backing. But Sheila's uncle will do his best to foil Nathaniel's best-laid plans at every turn . . .
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"The intricacies and crises of life, love and business on a small Caribbean island play out in this latest novel by Montague Kobbé . . . . There is something for every reader in this engrossing novel depicting the complexities of inner and outer Caribbean and Latin lives-from the seemingly placid but often privately turbulent world of a small island such as Anguilla to the overwhelming large urban
Insight Praise for Montague Kobbé
"Riveting, deeply thoughtful, and constantly inventive."
Joe Meno on The Night of the Rambler
"Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman's fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that echo Márquez."
Publishers Weekly on The Night of the Rambler