Sharon Duggal was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and now lives in Hove with her family. Sharon's debut The Handsworth Times was chosen as a City Reads in 2017 and was The Morning Star Book of The Year.

'Duggal writes about the devastation of vulnerable lives with all the hard-eyed clarity of William Trevor, and as much literary heart as Rohinton Mistry... beautifully observed, suffused with inner-city melancholy and shot through with the hope that can only come from random encounters.' Preti Taneja

• 'At its heart the novel is a spacious, melancholy work, its sorrowful yet hopeful storylines an elegy to time's passing. 'The Guardian'

Sharon Duggal was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and now lives in Hove with her family. Sharon's debut The Handsworth Times was chosen as a City Reads in 2017 and was The Morning Star Book of The Year.

'Duggal writes about the devastation of vulnerable lives with all the hard-eyed clarity of William Trevor, and as much literary heart as Rohinton Mistry... beautifully observed, suffused with inner-city melancholy and shot through with the hope that can only come from random encounters.' Preti Taneja

• 'At its heart the novel is a spacious, melancholy work, its sorrowful yet hopeful storylines an elegy to time's passing. 'The Guardian'

Sharon Duggal was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and now lives in Hove with her family. Sharon's debut The Handsworth Times was chosen as a City Reads in 2017 and was The Morning Star Book of The Year.

'Duggal writes about the devastation of vulnerable lives with all the hard-eyed clarity of William Trevor, and as much literary heart as Rohinton Mistry... beautifully observed, suffused with inner-city melancholy and shot through with the hope that can only come from random encounters.' Preti Taneja

• 'At its heart the novel is a spacious, melancholy work, its sorrowful yet hopeful storylines an elegy to time's passing. 'The Guardian'