After Breakfast

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in the seventies, Colin Williams joined his long-established family shipping business based in Southampton, England, in which he is still actively involved. In 2019, Colin produced a book depicting the 125-year history of the family firm. This gave him an appetite for writing – the results of which became his first novel After Breakfast. Much of After Breakfast takes place in the Caribbean – a place the author fell in love with when visiting friends in St Lucia for the first time, in 1976. A large part of the story was not only ‘written’ during holidays in the West Indies – but literally ‘experienced!’. Inspiration is also taken from the author’s years at senior school in Somerset and later as an articled clerk, training to become an accountant – the mounting number of anecdotes are richly interwoven throughout our protagonist’s adventures on the fictional island of Karaloo, situated some eight miles off the coast of Barbados. After Breakfast is full of humour, much banter, a little sadness, and sadly some tragedy – which, fortunately for the author, is not anecdotal! Of course, there is also a thread of intrigue that will have the reader continually wanting to read just one more page to the very end.