Six Steps

Six Steps is an African-Barbudan-Caribbean story. Charity is born in the city of Leicester in England in 1950. She is an orphan. She lives in a number of foster homes. At the age of ten, she receives a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school and hopes that her loneliness will lessen in her new environment.

It is during this period that she discovers her ability to commune with her African ancestors. Charity learns that her grandmother five times removed was kidnapped from Africa in 1813. She is able to relive her ordeal and is introduced to the lives of her subsequent grandmothers born on the island of Barbuda in the Caribbean. Eventually Charity meets her mother
and, together with her female forebears, she learns the history of Barbuda, the sister island to Antigua, part of the Leeward Islands.

But in 2022, is the island at risk from climate change, home grown gold diggers,foreign designs, and re-colonization? This story is for all of us to contemplate; the recent history of Barbuda suggests a Caribbean future fraught with challenges for our children.

It is a story written especially for young adults and the wider public.

Illustrations by Janie Conley-Johnson & Photographs by Gulliver J Johnson (Winners of the Gourmand Award Paris 2012 for Tablemanners (Simply Antigua- Barbuda)
Original Story Edited by Joanne Hillhouse (Author, Editor, Writing Coach, Course /Workshop Facilitator)
Six Steps Published by Europe Books
Show cased at several public events in 2022 including;
Liber International Book Fair Barcelona Spain October 5th-7th
Frankfurter Buchmesse Book Fair in Germany October19th-23rd.
Kuwait International Book Fair, Mishref Fair Ground, Kuwait City 16th- 26th November.
Available in paperback on Barnes & Noble & Amazon & leading bookshops.