*Winner of the 2026 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE and the 2025 CARICON FICTION PRIZE**Shortlisted for the 2025 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE PRIZE*

''The past is uprooted, the present holds on by thread, and in the midst of it all is Miss Pauline, strong, conflicted, driven and remarkable.'' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Witch, Spider King

''Delightful and big-hearted . . . It kept me turning pages deep into the night, and left me full of admiration at the end.'' Guardian

''One of the Caribbean''s finest writers.'' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch

When the stones of her home begin to rattle and call out to her in the quiet of the night, Pauline Sinclair knows she will not live to see her 100th birthday.

From educating herself through stolen books to becoming one of the most successful ganja farmers in the area and raising a family, Pauline has lived a life on her own terms in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village.Yet these whispering walls promise to topple the foundations of her security and exhume Pauline''s many buried secrets, including the mysterious disappearance of the man who came to claim the very land on which she built her home, stone by stone, from the ruins of a plantation.

Compelled to make peace before she dies, Pauline decides to leave the only home she has ever known on a final, desperate mission to uncover truths she could never have imagined . . .

''History''s crimes unfurl in this magical story . . . McCaulay''s immaculate, breathtaking writing carries it with poise and conviction.'' Lisa Allen-Agostini, author of The Bread the Devil Knead

''A vivid story of inheritance and belonging, informed by the author''s own fascinating family history.'' Daily Mail

It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling ordeal. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day and live and work at night, all the time under brutal Domin rule. Food is scarce, and people over forty are expendable.

Sorrel can take no more and persuades her mother, Bibi, that they should flee the city and head for cooler ground high in the interior. She has heard there are groups known as Tribals who have found ways of evading feral animals and surviving up there.

Diana McCaulay takes the reader on a tense, threat-filled odyssey as mother and daughter attempt their escape. On the way, Sorrel learns much about the nature of self-sacrifice, maternal love and the dreadful choices that must be made in the cause of self-protection.

“Like the best science fiction, Daylight Come isn’t just fiction but a warning of a very possible future.” Kei Miller

“Sadly, nothing in this powerful glimpse of a possible future strains credulity; we could be building precisely this planet. Its readers, I hope, will be moved to take action right now, while we still have time to avert some of the damage. And I hope they will be moved, too, by the gritty evocation of unity across difference that allows effective resistance.” Bill McKibben

“This driving narrative explores important issues of climate change from a non-European perspective. An important book.” Ingrid Persaud

*Winner of the 2026 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE and the 2025 CARICON FICTION PRIZE**Shortlisted for the 2025 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE PRIZE*

''The past is uprooted, the present holds on by thread, and in the midst of it all is Miss Pauline, strong, conflicted, driven and remarkable.'' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Witch, Spider King

''Delightful and big-hearted . . . It kept me turning pages deep into the night, and left me full of admiration at the end.'' Guardian

''One of the Caribbean''s finest writers.'' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch

When the stones of her home begin to rattle and call out to her in the quiet of the night, Pauline Sinclair knows she will not live to see her 100th birthday.

From educating herself through stolen books to becoming one of the most successful ganja farmers in the area and raising a family, Pauline has lived a life on her own terms in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village.Yet these whispering walls promise to topple the foundations of her security and exhume Pauline''s many buried secrets, including the mysterious disappearance of the man who came to claim the very land on which she built her home, stone by stone, from the ruins of a plantation.

Compelled to make peace before she dies, Pauline decides to leave the only home she has ever known on a final, desperate mission to uncover truths she could never have imagined . . .

''History''s crimes unfurl in this magical story . . . McCaulay''s immaculate, breathtaking writing carries it with poise and conviction.'' Lisa Allen-Agostini, author of The Bread the Devil Knead

''A vivid story of inheritance and belonging, informed by the author''s own fascinating family history.'' Daily Mail

It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling ordeal. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day and live and work at night, all the time under brutal Domin rule. Food is scarce, and people over forty are expendable.

Sorrel can take no more and persuades her mother, Bibi, that they should flee the city and head for cooler ground high in the interior. She has heard there are groups known as Tribals who have found ways of evading feral animals and surviving up there.

Diana McCaulay takes the reader on a tense, threat-filled odyssey as mother and daughter attempt their escape. On the way, Sorrel learns much about the nature of self-sacrifice, maternal love and the dreadful choices that must be made in the cause of self-protection.

“Like the best science fiction, Daylight Come isn’t just fiction but a warning of a very possible future.” Kei Miller

“Sadly, nothing in this powerful glimpse of a possible future strains credulity; we could be building precisely this planet. Its readers, I hope, will be moved to take action right now, while we still have time to avert some of the damage. And I hope they will be moved, too, by the gritty evocation of unity across difference that allows effective resistance.” Bill McKibben

“This driving narrative explores important issues of climate change from a non-European perspective. An important book.” Ingrid Persaud