When the genteely impoverished & rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil scion of a privileged Sinhalese family she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel with their young son Milton from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s & no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would England does not take kindly to strangers especially families who are half black & half white. A profound & moving novel this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin.