Gone to Drift is an award-winning coming-of-age adventure story set in Jamaica. Life gets even tougher for Lloyd, a boy from a fishing village, when his grandfather goes missing at sea - 'gone to drift' as the local fishers say. Lloyd sets out to find him but no one will help except an uptown girl who studies dolphins, his best friend Dwight and - just perhaps - a mad man called Slowly on a sun-baked beach. Truth? Respect? Survival? Remembering what Maas Conrad had taught him about the old ways, Lloyd discovers that the enemies of the sea - and his grandfather - are closer to home than he could imagine.

 

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Papillote Press .

Diana McCaulay is an award-winning Jamaican writer and a lifelong resident of its capital city Kingston. She has written two acclaimed novels, Dog-Heart (2010) and Huracan (2012). Dog-Heart won a Gold Medal in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's National Creative Writing Awards (2008), was shortlisted for the Guyana Prize (2011), the IMPAC Dublin Award (2012) and the Saroyan Prize for International Writing (2012). Huracan was also shortlisted for the 2014 Saroyan Prize. Gone to Drift, which was placed second in the 2015 Burt Prize for Caribbean Literature, is McCaulay's first Young Adult novel. It is built on McCaulay's 2012 Regional Commonwealth prize-winning short story, The Dolphin Catchers. Founder and long-time CEO of the Jamaica Environment Trust, McCaulay entices her readers with the spirit and complexity of contemporary Jamaica.