Teeton lives multiple lives in England. One is with a bohemian group of
Caribbean artist exiles; another is his curiously intimate mother-son
relationship with his English landlady. He is also enmeshed in a
revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow a reactionary Caribbean
government.
Teeton keeps each aspect of his life in compartments but when the revolt
begins, his once separate worlds begin to fuse together with disastrous
results.
Perhaps the most famous writer to emerge from the island of Barbados,
the now grandfatherly George Lamming was born on June 8, 1927.
Though he grew up on the island, like so many West Indian writers he
eventually left, emigrating to England in 1950. There, after spending
some time working in a factory and broadcasting for the BBC, Lamming
became a leader in a Caribbean renaissance that took place in England,
along with other exiles like V.S. Naipaul.