The Island Girl is one piece of a tapestry of Mauritius. In the Mauritius Migrants Series by Sophie Cayeux the characters form a community. The tapestry will be complete only when each character has told his/her story. The other books in the series are Snow Beach and Sweet Sugar.

The Island Girl is the story of Dr. Jack McDorry, born Raj Patel in Mauritius. It is about Jack’s experience of how identity and love interact in all our lives.

In the late 1940s at the British Armed Forces’ barracks in Mauritius, the military band plays “God Save the King” when Raj is born. Her love for the Union Jack inspires his mother to name him Raj Jack Patel.

Raj immigrates to London when he is fourteen. He joins school as Jack Patel. Bullied and isolated, one day Jack lands with a broken arm in hospital and his life changes forever. A gambler teaches him all about horse racing. Jack becomes a sought-after tipster and friends flock to him.

At medical school Jack marries his sweetheart Liz and adopts her name McDorry. Dr. Jack McDorry is forty-three when Babette, a Chinese-Mauritian student twenty-two years his junior, knocks down his bicycle whilst he is on holiday in Mauritius. This is the start of an unfinished affair.

About the Author:
Sophie is a retired medical scientist from Mauritius with strong family ties on the island. She left the island to study medicine in London, UK and a career in medical research. She spent thirty years in laboratories at universities mainly in Germany - in Heidelberg and Berlin. Sophie has two adult children and shares her time between Mauritius and England.

CONTRIBUTORS
Cover design, Mark Ecob at http://mecob.co.uk
Editors: Jessica Ruston at http://www.writersworkshop.co.uk
Susan Buchanan at http://perfectproseservices.com
Helen Pisano at Bewick Editorial Ltd.
Proofreading: Wendy Janes at http://wendyproof.co.uk
Formatting: Yvonne Betancourt at http://www.ebook-format.com
Also available in the following formats: eBook, 978-99949-0-175-3; audiobook, 978-99949-0-185-2.