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'A gift I didn't know I needed' Leone Ross 'Wonderful' Marcia Hutchinson 'Jamaica Road exudes love . . . with a wisdom and warmth that jumps off the page' Vanessa Chan South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book...

At Vassar, they were known as "the group"—eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. In the years that follow, they will each know accomplishment and loss in equal measure, pursuing careers and marriage, experiencing the joys and traumas of sexual awakening and motherhood, all while suffering through betrayals, infidelities, and sometimes madness. Some of them will drift apart. Some will play important roles in the personal dramas of others. But it is tragedy that will ultimately unite the group once again.

'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out...

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD As featured on Graham Norton's Book Club Narrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of history Over two hundred years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her...

Shani Akilah's stunning collection brings to life the stories of Black-British Londoners as they explore friendship and romance, community and independence, and navigate their way through the relationships that make them who they are.