An Olive Grove in Ends av Moses McKenzie

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<p><b>ONE OF THE <i>OBSERVER</i>''S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022</b><br><b>A <i>GUARDIAN </i>NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022<br>WINNER: HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE 2023; </b><b>SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023;</b><b>SOHO HOUSE BREAKTHROUGH WRITER AWARD 2022</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED: THE WRITERS'' GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023<br><br></b><b>''Luminous prose, rendered with sensitivity and without sentimentalism. An astonishing debut'' Cherie Jones, author of <i>HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE</i></b><br><br>Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in which he was raised. Far removed from the torn slips outside the bookie''s, the burnt spoons and the crooked solutions his community embraces; most of all, removed from the Christianity of his uncaring parents and the prejudice of law-makers.<br><br>Growing up, Sayon found respite from the chaos of his environment in the love and loyalty of his brother-in-arms, Cuba; in the example of his cousin Ha