<p>This new collection of short stories from an award-winning writer explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime.</p>

<p>Sensuous and evocative, Scott&rsquo;s prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates.</p>

<p>'A really accomplished writer. Lawrence Scott s last book is a delight'&nbsp;-&nbsp;<em>Derek Walcott</em>, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature</p>

<p><strong>Lawrence Scott</strong>&nbsp;is a prize-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer who was born on a sugar estate in Trinidad.<br />
He has been short-listed for Commonwealth writers&rsquo; prizes three times, long-listed for the Whitbread Prize and the Booker Prize and was winner of the Tom-Gallon Short Story Award. His latest novel is&nbsp;<em>Light Falling on Bamboo</em>&nbsp;(Profile Books, 9781781251584) about the 19th-century painter Jean Michel Cazabon.&nbsp;<em>Leaving by Plane Swimming Back Underwater</em>&nbsp;is his second short-story collection. He lives and works in both London and Port of Spain, Trinidad.</p>