Van Gerry

Legend of the Caul Van Gerry

The novel tells the story of two boys from different countries and cultures: The 'Old World British Isles' and 'The New World Islands of The Bahamas. The boys' life-styles and ambitions do not match, until one night their individual dream worlds overlap to become one 'real' world, in which both boys live, interact and eventually learn to regard each other as 'brothers'. 'Stretch' and 'Jag' are geographically separated form each other by the wide expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. Nonetheless, through the 'powers' of their unique 'birth-rights', the boys can come together in physical 'real-time' for continuing wonderful adventures in both England and The Bahamas. Such undertakings include: Treasure-hunting and underwater exploration in The Bahamas; Deer-stalking and sight-seeing in the back streets. British Isles. Finally, there is a romantic/dramatic/mystic resolution of the caul-bearing 'brothers' seventy- year. special rapport with a dream-like place called 'Plager Creek', a water-way of Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The Reader is left to answer the question: 'What 'really' happened to 'Stretch' and 'Jag' at the cross-roads of 'possibly' alternate universes?' * Bermuda and Eleuthera are two apexes of an area known as 'The Devil's Triangle'.