Discovering untold stories about West Indian migration and the Windrush generation through fiction

Paulette Ramsay, Professor at The University of the West Indies, is the author of two novels that document the correspondence between a mother who has migrated to England as part of the Windrush generation and her daughter in Jamaica.
In this video, Paulette answers the following questions:
- What inspired you to write the books?
- Why did people come to Britain?
- Considering the hardships that people faced, why did they not return to Jamaica? What made them stay?
- What other options, apart from coming to the UK, did people have?
- If the Windrush generation could do it all again, would they?
Find out more about Paulette's novels 'Letters Home' and 'Aunt Jen', published by Hodder Education, at hoddereducation.co.uk/caribbean-classics-2022