"It felt uncomfortably foreign, I would say. Obviously, it was the first time I had been in a country where everybody looked like me. But obviously, culturally, it was completely alien. And I found people in the street in St. Kitts actually were calling me "English".."
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Novelists from EnglandEssayists from EnglandPlaywrights from EnglandUniversity of Oxford alumniPeople from Saint Kitts and Nevis
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