Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2015 | Page 27

INTERVIEW
with a boyfriend, and signed on at the
jobcentre, which yielded her a job as a
machinist in a clothing factory.
“That was one of the hardest jobs you
can imagine,” she says. “The place had a
tin roof, so it either rained inside or was
so hot in the summer that you couldn’t
breathe”.
But as an ex-stable girl, Caroline was
used to hard graft, and stuck it out as a
way of paying the rent.
It was only after her relationship with
the boyfriend broke down ]