City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Mainlander, Will Smith

Mainlander

Will Smith

Isis large print

Jersey, 1987: The storm clouds are gathering over Colin Bygate, a schoolteacher - and a Mainlander married to an Islander. Sitting on an outcrop, stewing after a row with his wife, Colin spots one of his pupils near the edge of a cliff. Worried that the boy might have intended to jump, he drives him home, hoping that his gloomy imagination has been exaggerating his concern. But when the boy fails to turn up at school the next day, Colin feels duty-bound to track him down - thus pitting himself against the Island establishment, who would rather there was a little less noise around this particular absence. In Jersey, where everyone knows everyone else's business, you must become your own island, especially when there are secrets to hide..