Kit Musgrave's Luck

The Canary Islands aren't what Kit Musgrave imagined. The romance he expected dissolves into smoke stacks and steamers the moment his ship docks in Las Palmas. He's left Liverpool, left his job, left Betty - the girl who never quite said she loved him - for something he can't name yet. Fortune, maybe. Or just the desperate need to be more than a clerk in his father's firm. Bindloss writes with sharp eyes about the collision between expectation and reality. Kit's journey through the Canary Islands and on to West Africa isn't a gentle adventure - it's a man's education in how little the world owes him. The Spanish crew, the mysterious Don Arturo, the tropical heat of the coast - every character and place tests Kit's assumptions about who he might become when he's stripped of everything familiar. This is the old story: a young man leaves home searching for himself, only to discover that leaving everything behind is the easy part. Surviving what comes next is what shapes a life.