Bookshelf 2023: "vividly brings 1920s Trinidad to life"

Written by Richard Price and Sally Price for New West Indian Guide on Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

Fortune (Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree, 2021, paper £9.99) is the third novel by Irish-Trinidadian Amanda Smyth. Expansive and quite wonderful, it is set in 1920s Trinidad, as cocoa crops are faltering and oil has just begun to gush. [...] the book vividly brings 1920s Trinidad to life and the plot, from family relations to a slowly simmering love affair between a man and the wife of his oil-drilling partner, moves right along.