After leaving Canada, Laurence moved to England for a short while. She returned to England following the separation of her and her husband Jack. Although Laurence did not write much about England, there are English characters included in her novel This Side Jordan. In this novel, Laurence writes from more than one person’s perspective. In the first chapter, there is no one character that the story is told through; it is told from a third-person limited point of view. Thus, although there is no single character that the story is told by, it does focus more on the characters Nathaniel Amegbe and Johnnie Kestoe. Laurence does this by alternating each chapter’s character focus. There are also interactions between Johnnie and Nathaniel granting
