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Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Niala Maharaj was a leading figure in the local print media. She went on to co-produce and co-present the country's most successful weekly television series. She left Trinidad in 1987 to edit an international women's magazine based in Rome, endured a short stint with an Asian non-governmental organisation based in Hong Kong, then returned to Europe where she settled in Amsterdam. She has travelled extremely widely, working as a freelance journalist, editor and communications consultant to international organisations, universities and publishers. She has written one non-fiction book- The Game of the Rose- The Third World in the International Flower Trade and is currently working on her second novel.
The heat and vitality of the Caribbean burn off the page in this beguiling novel * Guardian * A big, life-enhancing book, fast-paced, both funny and sad. * Caribbean Beat * Maharaj's writing pulses with the vibrant colours and smells of the Caribbean * Sunday Telegraph *
