Tides Between Two Shores: A Pacific Life Unmoored

The red dirt of Maui. The grey pavements of Manchester. Home is not a place. It is a frequency you tune into.

A childhood split between a Hawaiian father's star-navigation stories and an English mother's pragmatic determination. A young adulthood lost in translation. Then the father dies, and the islands pull back hard. Family gatherings where poi meets Yorkshire pudding. Ancient chants in council estates. Grief becomes the bridge between cultures that logic cannot connect. A memoir about inheriting two worlds while fully belonging to neither. About code-switching and cultural inheritance. About learning that being caught between is not being lost."