After Breakfast

While Oliver had visited the Caribbean many times, this is his first visit to Karaloo. After leaving a job that once defined him, Oliver is still grappling with the aftermath of a tragedy that devastated his life three years ago.

He hopes that a holiday on this tranquil island will provide the peace he needs to reflect, heal, and perhaps finally lift the lingering cloud that’s shadowed his life for so long. But from the moment he arrives at his boutique hotel, things take an unexpected turn. Instead of the quiet retreat he envisioned, Oliver becomes caught up in the comings and goings of the hotel’s colourful guests and unpredictable events.

Will this journey offer Oliver the clarity he desperately seeks, or will he leave Karaloo even more uncertain about the next chapter of his life?

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in the seventies, Colin Williams joined his long-established family shipping business based in Southampton, England, in which he is still actively involved.

In 2019, Colin produced a book depicting the 125-year history of the family firm. This gave him an appetite for writing – the results of which became his first novel After Breakfast.

Much of After Breakfast takes place in the Caribbean – a place the author fell in love with when visiting friends in St Lucia for the first time, in 1976. A large part of the story was not only ‘written’ during holidays in the West Indies – but literally ‘experienced!’. Inspiration is also taken from the author’s years at senior school in Somerset and later as an articled clerk, training to become an accountant – the mounting number of anecdotes are richly interwoven throughout our protagonist’s adventures on the fictional island of Karaloo, situated some eight miles off the coast of Barbados.

After Breakfast is full of humour, much banter, a little sadness, and sadly some tragedy – which, fortunately for the author, is not anecdotal! Of course, there is also a thread of intrigue that will have the reader continually wanting to read just one more page to the very end.