Before the Rain Jan Lowe Shinebourne Hodell’s pacifist and anarchist politics

Hodell’s pacifist and anarchist politics are always present

many of whom believed it was about a real person was real

In these stories of Indian life in Trinidad in the 1940s and 50s

" - Orwell Prize for Political Fiction panel

This ambitious collection hums with complex feeling

Before the Rain Jan Lowe Shinebourne Hodell’s pacifist and anarchist politicsIn bringing together poems and short stories in one collection, Christine Craig looks both inward at herself as the reflector and celebrant of the experiences of a long life, and outward as the observer and creator of the dramas of other lives. Her world encompasses hazard, cruelty, and the abuse of power but it is seen with a hopeful eye that pays homage to the resourcefulness of Jamaican aunties, finds joy in the promiscuity of a garden nurtured by