By Floella Benjamin

By Floella Benjamin
Walker Books are proud to publish this
inspiring autobiographical tale of one
of Britain’s best-loved television
personalities. First published in 1995,
this new edition is a unique record of the
experience of immigration in the 1960’s.
Floella Benjamin’s touching story of leaving
Trinidad for a new life in England is typical
of many young West Indians of that time.
When Floella first arrives in cold, grey,
noisy London from the Caribbean, nothing can
dampen her happiness at being reunited with
her parents after fifteen months. But it soon
becomes apparent that England isn’t entirely
the land of golden opportunities they were
promised and her family encounter hostility
and discrimination from every side. This
is the story of Floella’s determination to
overcome this prejudice.
Read by children all over the world, this
moving account of immigration and adjusting
to cultural and racial differences has also
been adapted into a film for BBC Television,
winning a Royal Television Society Education
Award in 2004.
Published 5th October
£4.99 Age 9+
For more information please
contact Eve Warlow in Walker
Publicity on 020 7396 2468
or eve.warlow@walker.co.uk
Floella is a broadcaster, actress, writer, producer and
an active worker for the welfare, care and education
of children throughout the world, an inspirational
icon to the young and old. Best known for her work as
a children’s TV presenter on iconic programmes like
‘Playschool’ and ‘Play Away’. Today she runs a successful
TV production company and continues to appear in feature
films, television dramas and children’s programmes.
The sequel to Coming to England, Arms of Britannia will
be published in 2010
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