Solomon Time Author:Will Randall Accosted by a drunken girl at a wedding, Will Randall is informed that if you're not married by the time you're thirty-two you should grab the first person that walks past or give up and go abroad. So when the opportunity arises to swap teaching for the South Pacific, it is an offer that Will - single and eighteen months past his sell-by date - ... more »is unable to refuse.
Spread lazily across the Tropic of Capricorn, the Solomon Islands are not so much the Pacific archipelago that time forgot, as the one that forgets about time. As Will quickly discovers, it is a place where only the sun and the moon govern the order of the days, and where schedules and deadlines do not translate into the local dialect of "pijin" English.
Will's new home is Mendali, a village so remote that it can only be reached by dugout canoe. His challenge: to keep the community self-sufficient is the face of foreign developers. It is a task that pits him against sharks, mosquitoes and shipwrecks, but one in which he is aided by a treasure trove of characters, from the pirate look-alike Tassels to the rock 'n' roll quiffed preacher Dudley Small Tome.
Recalling such writers as Gerald Durrell and Robert Louis Stevenson, Solomon Time is set to become a classic of South Sea island life.« less