My Journey, Unplanned

Describes the author's years growing up in British Guiana, during the period prior to that country's independence in 1966. Her hopes to attend university in England but instead going to the University College of the West Indies in Jamaica. The effect of her father's career changes on her prospective job in the National Library in Georgetown; different future resulting from her move to France as a language assistant. Her return to Georgetown just prior to independence and her appointment to ...