must-have debut that announces Abbas as a powerful new voice in fiction
which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream
the woman trails her wherever she goes
delivers this stunning debut novel examining the validity of fury as response when a young Kenyan girl's mistakes in first love are ruthlessly held against her by a paternalistic society
From his balcony in Hackney he talks to his beautiful neighbour Telma telling her his story
Ground must-have debut that announces AbbasIt all starts with a fire. Seven children, asleep in a big house in the Italian countryside. A forgotten candle. Their parents are not there. They are in a different country, a different continent, Africa, where other siblings are growing as part of the same family but in an entirely different life. Without their parents, the children feel dispersed, trying to keep hold of each other. Now in his forties, Redesof works as an acupuncturist in post