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England, 1971. Harriet Bush is eight years old, cross-legged on her brother's bed, reading Swallows and Amazons and scratching at the wallpaper.LOVE AND HAPPINESS follows Harriet across two decades; from a Congleton childhood through Stockport flat-shares, from the adoption papers that arrive on her sixteenth birthday to an extraordinary piece of engineering that will make her briefly notorious. She is Black, adopted, raised by a white family who love her fiercely and understand her imperfectly. Her brother Lucas is the only other person in the world who knows exactly what that means.The novel is often very funny. A burglary mounted for the most romantic of reasons goes comprehensively, humiliatingly wrong. A London hen night escalates well beyond anyone's control. Then there is Dennis, in the flat below; a retired RAF veteran with a half-finished model P-38 Lightning on his craft bench and increasingly unreliable hands.Underneath the comedy, LOVE AND HAPPINESS; named for the Al Green and Teenie Hodges lyric that opens it; is a novel about what it means to hold on to the people you might lose. Harriet's Britain is the specific, unromantic, entirely real Britain of the 1970s and 1980s: the pointed reading lists of a well-meaning English teacher, a social worker arriving unannounced at a maternity ward, a tabloid front page, a wet afternoon in a Worsley cemetery. The novel holds you inside Harriet's world as though it's happening now; clearly and without self-pity; through eyes that see sharper than most.The last line of the novel belongs to Dennis. Five words. They are, in context, completely unbearable."e;A compelling force of nature that kept me turning the pages."e;THE CAMBRIAN NEWS
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Engelska, 2026133 kr
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An exciting collection of new voices. I ZIG AND I ZAG weaves together varying styles and stories – there is truly something for everyone here!"e;HANAN ISSA | NATIONAL POET OF WALESMasaka Madeda walks. That's all. He walks, and he looks, and he listens, and after a hundred elegantly crafted pages you will realise Masaka has not missed a single thing.Masaka's epic title poem, I ZIG AND I ZAG! is the reason our anthology exists. A pan-African flâneur moving through coastal Kenya with the unhurried attention of a man who understands that fishermen, crabs, grasshoppers, and lovers are all equally worth pausing for. Travelogue, diary, social observation, and spiritual reflection, sometimes together in the same breath. A masterpiece in form and meaning, and unlike anything else in British-published poetry.Alongside Masaka's epic, another nine poets who have also been paying attention:Eric Ngalle Charles' odes to loved ones no longer with us; reminders that 'memories can be burdensome'. Rosamund McCullain combines myth, union, destruction and rebirth as acts of resistance against both social decline and otherness. A joint poem from Ciel Saludes and Mohammed Abdoel, steeped in generational and cultural reckoning. Luke A. Blaidd's poem: a young man in a Corfu taverna, unable to tell his family who he is. Brân Denning's disturbing confrontation with the maternal as an absent devouring need. Rakyah Assam's memory, woven in postcolonial grief, creates a dense textural language steeped in chemical compounds and dislocation. Gareth Alun Roberts' thematically interwoven triad, bound by a bardic register of love for land and language. G.I. James rejects the pressed bowling green. The Flaubert epigraph says it all: the meaning of life is to avoid boredom.