SUNLIGHT TO SHADOWS AND BACK AGAIN

She was seventeen years old when she stepped off the plane from Jamaica into a cold, grey, unfamiliar London. She had eleven pounds in her purse and a lifetime ahead of her.

More than sixty years later, she is still standing. But the road between those two moments was nothing like she expected.

SUNLIGHT TO SHADOWS AND BACK AGAIN is the extraordinary true memoir of Grandma Angie - Jamaican-born NHS nurse, foster carer, entrepreneur, mother, and two-time cancer survivor - whose life has moved, again and again, between moments of brilliant light and devastating darkness.

She built a life in Britain from nothing. She cared for the sick, the elderly, and children who needed a home. She survived breast cancer. Twice. She managed heart failure. She kept going.

And then, on an ordinary afternoon at Gatwick Airport in 2016, a woman asked her for help.

What followed was not just a scam. It was a decade of hacking, digital surveillance, threats, court battles, erased records, and a transatlantic criminal network that assumed an eighty-four-year-old woman living alone would simply go quiet.

They assumed wrong.

Written with the fierce heart of a lion, this book is three things at once: a vivid, warm, and deeply human memoir of a Jamaican woman's journey through sixty years of British life - a gripping true-crime account of fraud, betrayal, and a fight the authorities refused to finish - and an urgent, personal warning to every reader about the organised criminals who target the elderly and the kind-hearted every single day.

It is also a love letter to the NHS, a plea to every woman to examine her breast, and a testament to what one person can do when they simply refuse to give up.

All major proceeds will be donated to Cancer and Heart Research.

"They assumed I would go quiet. They assumed wrong."