Two Pebbles In A Flood - A Fable Of Our Times - There is a transcendent connection between Jan and Janice, the two main characters, something they feel but cannot explain They would die for each other this they know The explanation is strongly suggested at the end of the book About the Author: Born in 1984 to a Jamaican mother and a British father, Indy Jean Arden never felt at home anywhere Not in Jamaica, where she attended grammar school, not in England, or Connecticut, USA, where she attended high school She started writing as a means of coping In college she noticed that almost everything she wrote was somewhat controversial, involving religious and social issues She continued on that path It was her way of not stilling her voice Now divorced, she teaches in a small conservative Jamaican town where no one (except for her two young children) know that she writes She wants to keep it that way and uses proxies to facilitate getting her works published