Beverly Scobie was born and grew up in Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago. Her secondary schooling was followed by the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, and the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine, Trinidad, where she studied law. She relocated to the USA in 1984, where she currently resides. Since her retirement in 2022, she has focused on completing her family’s history. Via The Roundabout is her first publication. Here she traces her father’s ancestors from 1819 Tobago to post-independence Trinidad and Tobago.