Amy Winehouse at home in Caribbean

Apr 29, 2009, 9:00 GMT

Amy Winehouse. The troubled singer has spent the majority of the year on the Caribbean island and, after feeling isolated after briefly returning to the UK last month, has decided to make her home there.Solarpix / PR Photos

Amy Winehouse is moving permanently to St. Lucia.

The troubled singer has spent the majority of the year on the Caribbean island and, after feeling isolated after briefly returning to the UK last month, has decided to make her home there.

A source said: "Amy is fed up with the stress and trauma that comes with being in London.

"She has made so many friends in St. Lucia and says it feels like home. When she returned to the UK in March she felt like an outsider."

Amy - who moved away from North London to the quieter area of Barnet to escape her hard-partying friends when she returned from her original extended vacation - has been house-hunting since returning to the island and has finally found her dream home.

The source added to Britain's The Sun newspaper: "She has her heart set on one house in particular. It is massive, right on the beach and has its own big garden too."

Amy's record company have reportedly decided to embrace the star's desire to start a new life in St. Lucia. Label bosses are planning to finance a recording studio in her new home, so she can work on new tracks for the follow up to award-winning album 'Back to Black'.