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The Longman Caribbean Writers Series comprises of many classic novels, short stories and plays by the best known Caribbean authors, together with works of the highest quality from new writers.

A classic first novel about growing up in colonial Barbados. It is a brilliant, sensitive record of the evolving consciousness of a poor village boy, at a time of rapid social change.

George Lamming was born June 8, 1927 in Carrington’s Village, Barbados. He attended Combermere High School. He left Barbados for Trinidad in 1946 to become a teacher, four years later he was to migrate to England to become a writer. In the Castle of My Skin was completed within two years of his arrival in London.