pRedemption Time is the enthralling story of a 16-year-old boy, William Carpenter, from a reasonably privileged family who is told by his father that the family has been hit by a major financial disaster. The family home and land will have to be sold and he will have to leave his public school as his father can no longer afford to pay the fees. In other words, they are 'bust'.pp ppWhat he does, having delved into the family archives and history, forms the essence of the story taking him, as a deckhand, on a banana boat to the West Indies. There, on the island of Barbados, on a chance meeting on shore leave with a businessman, he discovers that his ancestor of 200 years ago who he knew had spent time there, had been one of the first and most successful sugar planters. It was this ancestor who had made the family fortune, now dissipated by his heirs and successors. On the island, his ancestor's name is still a legend.pp ppOn the banana boat, his deckhand duties catches the eye of a passe