A Different Hurricane – Exploring love, identity, and the cost of secrecy
In A Different Hurricane, H. Nigel Thomas weaves a story where the storm is both a literal force—it’s set during the week that Hurricane Irma hits the Caribbean—and a its also a metaphor for the inner storms that rage within and around his characters and their choices. The story explores themes of societal pressure, the cost of conformity and identity. Growing up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage best friends Gordon and Allen are secret lovers until they are forced apart their community’s traditional expectations and their fear of how others will react. They each …