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The rising cases of rejection and ostracism suffered by LGBT persons in Barbados made Simone's Place a timely production when it was first performed there in 2014. The play is a story of love, acceptance and the need for connection and belonging. Though it focuses on issues of gender identity, the question of class is ever present. The central character is a transgender owner of the club/bar, Simone's Place, where she performs Nina Simone jazz standards as Lady Simone. Despite her upper-class roots, the deeply spiritual Lady Simone has become advisor and healer to many of the broken souls who drink in and hang around the bar; at the same time she is most in need of love and healing herself. The central figure's paradox binds and balances the play as each character struggles with the dilemma of trying to be free in a society where keeping secrets and 'acting right' is the key to survival.

Themes of coerced displacement and sexual disillusionment run through these stories as they shift between the Caribbean and America, arriving doused in magic, musicality and humor. From the title story about a man trapped in the nightmarish glare of post 9/11 scrutiny after he forgets a bag in Grand Central Station; to the deliciously funny but poignant Sweet Destine about a man unable to deal with his wife's sexual awakening after they migrate to America; or the darkly comic and passionate Licks Like Peas, Lovell's lyrical prose delights and captures the vibrant rhythms of love, longing and loss rooted in the Caribbean soul where home is not always where the heart is.

Now that Mr Symmington is embracing his new way of life after coming to grips with the death of his wife and his early retirement from England's high court, his new way of life has taken an unexpected turn. He was asked by a good friend of his, Inspector Jonathon Stonewall, before his death to investigate the deaths of Elizabeth Cartridge and Peter Winscelscott who met their untimely end by the hands of Steven Fairbanks in a village named Cottondale.With his clever logic and a keen bloodhound nose for the truth, Mr Symmington will seek to make wrong things right. His best friend, Mr George Ellsworth, will find himself having to juggle his friendship with Jeremiah Blackworth and the truth surrounding the six year old case, which was given the name "Hands of Time" by the bloodhound himself Mr Symmington.