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DescriptionA tender, smart, conversation-starting love story which explores questions of identity and the legacy of the slave-trade in 21st-century Britain Is it fate? Or something much less romantic? When Layla and Andy first meet, they can't believe they share 'McKinnon' as a surname. It feels like fate, almost too romantic to be true. But Sera, Layla's best friend, has her doubts about Andy. As the pair fall deeper and deeper in love, she becomes more and more vocal about Layla settling down with a white boy. And then, only a few weeks before their wedding, Layla discovers that the reason behind their shared surname might not be so romantic after all. What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is rapidly derailed. In part propelled by Sera's rising anger, Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she never could have imagined, or -- perhaps -- had simply learnt to ignore. ReviewsA powerful and thought-provoking debut from a writer destined for greatness -- Red * Sarra Manning * Author descriptionPhoebe McIntosh is an actor and playwright from London. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, followed by her solo show, Dominoes, which toured the South East and London in 2018. She has completed the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab programme, and her most recent full-length play, The Soon Life, was shortlisted and highly commended for the Tony Craze Award as well as being longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. Phoebe won a place on the inaugural Tamasha x Hachette creative writing programme in 2018 and was also selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow programme in 2020. Dominoes was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021. |