Predencia (Penny) Dixon’s book, Dare to Love, an intriguing romantic drama that explores several social issues is currently available at Austin’s Book Services, Church Street.
Set in England and Barbados, Dare to Love tells the love story of a British woman and a Guyanese man, who meet in Barbados. They are both married to other people when they meet, but there is an instant attraction and their story then takes several turns and twists.
Dare to Love also explores several other themes: the Guyanese/Barbadian dynamic, the empty nest and Cougar phenomena and paedopohilia among others.
Dixon, who brought her book here last week also had an adventure of her own.
The mini drama all begin when she boarded an airport taxi to take her to the Sleep-Inn Hotel on Brickdam, where she had reserved accommodation online, but was taken to Sleep-Inn on Church Street instead. After speaking with a receptionist she realized it was the wrong hotel and was directed to the Brickdam location.
It was during check-in at that hotel that Dixon realized that she was no longer in possession of her purse.
She said the driver of the taxi, who had waited with her through the reservation process, became frantic and stated that how desperately he wanted her to find her belongings. He informed her that there was a perception that taxi drivers were not to be trusted.
Dixon then thought of calling the Church Street hotel where she had gone initially and sure enough her purse was there.
When she retrieved it, all her valuables were intact.
She had scheduled interviews both on television and radio and said she used those forums to tell her story so that any visitor who had the pre-conceived notion that Guyana was a place where no one is to be trusted would learn otherwise.
The Jamaica-born British writer left here on Thursday last, but plans to return some time next year, to savour more of Guyana’s rich cuisine, the largely pristine “bush” as she calls the interior and also produce a documentary on landscape, geographics and politics of the county.
