'A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy' MARIAN KEYES
When Layla and Andy first meet, they can't believe they have the same surname. It feels like fate... until they realise their families could be linked in the worst possible way.
Sera, Layla's best friend, has her doubts about Andy right from the start. As the couple fall deeper in love, and start to plan their future, Sera becomes more and more vocal about Layla settling down with a white boy. And then, only a few weeks before their wedding, Layla makes a devastating discovery....
What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is rapidly derailed as Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she had never imagined - or, perhaps, had simply learnt to ignore.
And now, she faces an impossible choice, between past and future, friendship and marriage, the personal and the political.
**A STYLIST UNMISSABLE BOOK FOR 2024**
'I loved this book' JACQUELINE CROOKS, author of Fire Rush
READERS LOVE DOMINOES:
'Tender, thought-provoking and hard-hitting'
'Kept me second guessing how things would turn out until the very end'
'Incredibly thought-provoking'
'Such an important novel'
'I laughed, I cried, I learned A LOT'
'So much more than a love story'
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A powerful and thought-provoking debut from a writer destined for greatness -- Red * Sarra Manning * I found it humbling and hopeful and I really CARED about the characters -- MARIAN KEYES Electrifying debut * Good Housekeeping * Smart and thoughtful... intertwines the personal and the political with a soft deftness * Harper's Bazaar * A swoony romance is the starting point for a soul-searching look at the legacy of the British slave trade... a touching debut, unafraid to ask difficult questions * Mail on Sunday * A thought-provoking look into the ties between past and present * Stylist * Thought-provoking and engaging, raising challenging questions while weaving a satisfying story -- Eleanor Barlow * Daily Express * Cracking dialogue, fascinating storyline, compelling characters and more -- JACQUELINE CROOKS, author of Fire Rush A timely and tender story about a young woman caught up in a sweet romance, who finds herself grappling with the idea that love, too, is political to its very core -- AYESHA MANAZIR SIDDIQI, author of The Centre Phoebe McIntosh is a tremendous storyteller, Dominoes is powerful and evocative, an outstanding debut -- SALENA GODDEN, author of Mrs Death Misses Death
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 215 mm
Breite: 139 mm
Dicke: 37 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-78474-489-2 (9781784744892)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Phoebe McIntosh is an actor and playwright based in 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 been a selected writer on the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab, Tamasha Playwrights and Talawa Firsts and her play, The Soon Life, was highly commended for the Tony Craze Award as well as being longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and the Bruntwood Prize 2022. Phoebe won a place on the inaugural Tamasha x Hachette creative writing programme and was also selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow programme in 2020. Dominoes was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021 and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024.
