FROM THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER RECIPIENT OF THE WOMENS PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD Evaristo possesses enough ballbusting originality to create whole novels for each of the historical characters she resurrects . . . [she creates] funky yarns so tantalising you want to devour them Guardian Meet Stanley Williams Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life than his ninetofive banking job in a skyhigh glass menagerie.Enter Jessie ODonnell barmaid, former singercumcomedienne, and desperate to get into her rusty old Lady Niva and hit the freeway across Europe. The unlikely pair begin an electrifying odyssey that weaves in and out of history, colliding with the forgotten heroes of Europes past. Shakespeares mysterious Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Pushkin and his Ethiopian greatgrandfather and the mixedrace Allessandro de Medici of Florence are all ready to have their voices heard, and Stanley and Jessie do what they can to hang on for the ride . . . A bouncy. . . touching novel about the search for love and belonging The Times

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 334 g; Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 20

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