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The summit of La Soufrière. Photo Francesca Palli.

Helena's story is a discovery of the Caribbean way of living, thinking, and behaving far from the idyllic life of the postcard tropical sunsets and fine sandy beaches. Under the shadow of La Soufrière, people are suffering and fighting to keep themselves alive. To some extent Helena is as bubbling as the volcano that shakes the island.

About the author

Dominique Lancastre is from Vieux-Habitants in Guadeloupe and currently living in Paris, France.

He attended Université de Paris-12, where he obtained a D.E.U.G. (Diplôme d’études universitaires générales, roughly equivalent to an associate degree), a bachelor’s degree in American art and civilization, and a master’s degree in American studies. He later received a D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies, a doctoral degree) in American studies. His master’s thesis topic under the direction of Catherine Collomp focused on educational inequality in the United States.

Dominique studied Chinese and Japanese for three years at the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, INALCO) in Paris.

He has served as an English teacher in several middle and high schools of Académie Paris-Versailles-Créteil, as a jury member for the competitive examination, and as a jury member, grader, and examiner for the Baccalaureate exam. In January of 2015 he founded the multicultural magazine www.pluton-magazine.com. He is currently part of the commercial crew for British Airways. He is the author of La Véranda (translated in Martinique and Guadeloupe Creole in 2019), Retour à la Grivelière, Une Femme chambardée, Tambours du silence, a poetry book (2019) Le Secret d’Igor is his last book published. He contributes to collective works such as Nouvelles des Mondes Créoles under the direction of Raphael Confiant with authors like Dany Laferrière (Académie de France).

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If A Woman In Turmoil hits 250 pre-orders by Friday 27 November 2020 9 A.M. UTC, then it will be pitched to 32 hybrid publishers when the campaign ends.

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