“So few Caribbean fictions render the voice of the quiet, respectable, middle-class husband and father. Here, the young Eddy Roberts falls in love with “my Suzy” and over a lifetime (and eleven children, who each have their own stories) never ceases to love her. I found it, in the words of the talented BVI poet Richard Georges, “wondrous” the way that Haynes managed to “mine the mundane, the everyday” of one family, one couple, and “find glory in it.”