“The author gives us a vivid account of her experience working in a state psychiatric institution as the young wife of a conscientious objector during World War II. ...
This small book tells the story, in his own words, of a man who came to the east end of London from St Lucia, in 1972. Xystus Sestus Marcel’s name refers to the book of Exodus, a reminder of enslaved people coming into emancipation.