This vivid story of a Caribbean childhood in 1960s Bradford does not stint on accounts of poverty and systemic abuse, yet is pungent with wit and colour

This vivid story of a Caribbean childhood in 1960s Bradford does not stint on accounts of poverty and systemic abuse, yet is pungent with wit and colour

The author of The Mercy Step on being a debut novelist at 62, having her work shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction, and using Jamaican dialect in her writing