Green days by the river

the long version

"A boy named Shellie lives in Trinidad and his father becomes ill. He takes to his neighbor for work and falls in love with the neighbors daughter. Then he falls for another, which angers the neighbor. This will keep you intrigued by the honesty and sensitive story." It is a coming-of-age romance, which has been immortalized by the eponymous film, Green Days by the River. Filmed in 2016, it was selected as the first movie to be premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago 2017 film festival. It is a classic Caribbean-based novel, which has stolen the hearts and minds of lovers of West Indian literature, of all ages.