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No Small Thing

- Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards for Debut Fiction
Af: Orlaine McDonald Engelsk Hardback

No Small Thing

- Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards for Debut Fiction
Af: Orlaine McDonald Engelsk Hardback
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WINNER OF THE 2025 KATE O''BRIEN AWARD''A taut generational story set on a South London estate'' Independent, July Book of the Month''McDonald is skilled at investing her characters with complicated vitality ... This highly promising debut invests the small things that are so easily taken for granted with quietly shattering significance'' Daily Mail''A gem of a book about mothers and daughters, about being Black and working class in today''s London. Beautiful writing, taut with emotion, poetry and insight'' Priscilla Morris, Women''s Prize shortlisted author of Black ButterfliesAlone among the lush tangle of plants on his balcony, Earl watches as a broken family reunites in the flat below. There''s Livia, who has been running for long enough to think her past might never catch up with her. Now she''s forced to catch her breath and face the daughter she left behind. Then Mickey, angry about having a mother who left, a father who died, about the mess she''s made of her own life. With no other place to go, she needs the mother who abandoned her. And Summer, whose new grandmother is weird, and whose mum is always sad or out looking for men to distract her. Left to roam, she finds friends who are willing to give her the attention that Mickey won''t. But are they as kind as she thinks they are? This is a novel about the power and pain of mothering. It crackles with desire, burns with hope and sings in a voice as compelling as it is true.
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WINNER OF THE 2025 KATE O''BRIEN AWARD''A taut generational story set on a South London estate'' Independent, July Book of the Month''McDonald is skilled at investing her characters with complicated vitality ... This highly promising debut invests the small things that are so easily taken for granted with quietly shattering significance'' Daily Mail''A gem of a book about mothers and daughters, about being Black and working class in today''s London. Beautiful writing, taut with emotion, poetry and insight'' Priscilla Morris, Women''s Prize shortlisted author of Black ButterfliesAlone among the lush tangle of plants on his balcony, Earl watches as a broken family reunites in the flat below. There''s Livia, who has been running for long enough to think her past might never catch up with her. Now she''s forced to catch her breath and face the daughter she left behind. Then Mickey, angry about having a mother who left, a father who died, about the mess she''s made of her own life. With no other place to go, she needs the mother who abandoned her. And Summer, whose new grandmother is weird, and whose mum is always sad or out looking for men to distract her. Left to roam, she finds friends who are willing to give her the attention that Mickey won''t. But are they as kind as she thinks they are? This is a novel about the power and pain of mothering. It crackles with desire, burns with hope and sings in a voice as compelling as it is true.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781800815582
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1800815581
Kategori: Relating to Black British people
Udg. Dato: 18 jul 2024
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 224mm
Højde: 144mm
Forlag: Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 18 jul 2024
Forfatter(e): Orlaine McDonald
Forfatter(e) Orlaine McDonald

Kategori Relating to Black British people

ISBN-13 9781800815582

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 224mm

Højde 144mm

Udg. Dato 18 jul 2024

Oplagsdato 18 jul 2024

Forlag Profile Books Ltd