Gadabout

Unable to cope when his family and fiancé are killed in a plane crash, Rick buys a boat named Gadabout. A chance encounter leads to St. Bart’s in the days before billionaires and their mega-yachts, when the island was home to a few bars and shops along the quay. What begins as just another weekend for Rick and a typical island hop for three women turns into a classic tale of love, loss and surrender. A comedy of errors, an enchanted day’s sail, the return of an old friend and charm of the island combine to show Rick and the others that life and love are there for the asking, the trick is in letting go. Set during the week Hurricane Hugo devastated the Leeward Islands, this superbly written tale takes the reader to an island now gone forever, when waves become mountains and the wind a fearful choir. What one storm has taken another returns.