Jeffrey Boakye is an author, broadcaster and educator with a particular interest in issues surrounding race, masculinity, education and popular culture. Originally from Brixton in London, Jeffrey taught secondary English for fifteen years. He is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Manchester and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Jeffrey’s books include Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime; Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored; What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions; I Heard What You Said; the multi-award-winning Musical Truth and Musical World and the Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer series. He is also the co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s double award-winning Add to Playlist. He now lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two sons.

This is a fantastic debut about family and the stress of living up to community expectation in an unforgiving city. It also has the most interesting and richly drawn amateur sleuth I've read for years

Jeffrey Boakye is an author, broadcaster and educator with a particular interest in issues surrounding race, masculinity, education and popular culture. Originally from Brixton in London, Jeffrey taught secondary English for fifteen years. He is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Manchester and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Jeffrey’s books include Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime; Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored; What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions; I Heard What You Said; the multi-award-winning Musical Truth and Musical World and the Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer series. He is also the co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s double award-winning Add to Playlist. He now lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two sons.

This is a fantastic debut about family and the stress of living up to community expectation in an unforgiving city. It also has the most interesting and richly drawn amateur sleuth I've read for years

Jeffrey Boakye is an author, broadcaster and educator with a particular interest in issues surrounding race, masculinity, education and popular culture. Originally from Brixton in London, Jeffrey taught secondary English for fifteen years. He is a senior teaching fellow at the University of Manchester and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Jeffrey’s books include Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime; Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored; What is Masculinity? Why Does it Matter? And Other Big Questions; I Heard What You Said; the multi-award-winning Musical Truth and Musical World and the Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer series. He is also the co-presenter of BBC Radio 4’s double award-winning Add to Playlist. He now lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two sons.

This is a fantastic debut about family and the stress of living up to community expectation in an unforgiving city. It also has the most interesting and richly drawn amateur sleuth I've read for years