Living quietly and working hard, Amy is struggling with how far she and Luke have moved apart. She harbours half formed hopes of reconciliation, whilst trying to re-establish her balance without him. Then she is stunned to be told of Luke's long term deceit. Her nights are plagued with memories and she is overcome with loss, and regret. Is she so easily duped? Had there been any truth in their life together? Did lying come easily to him? Did he lie to himself as well as to her?

Clarke and Clarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando - and the entire sugar belt south of the town known as Naparima. They record socio-political relations during the second year of Trinidad s independence (1964), and provide first-hand evidence for the workings of a complex, plural society in which race, religion, and politics had become, and have remained, deeply intertwined. Entries occur whenever there is evidence of social scientific importance to the project, and these range from descriptions of weddings and pujas...