Wild Ground av Emily Usher

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Neef has always been a storyteller and her story now, working in a caf¿n London, is that her name is Jennifer. Jennifer never knew a boy called Danny, never loved him, never had him wrenched away from her.As a child, it was always Neef and her mother, Chrissy - troubled, beautiful, at the mercy of addiction and a succession of bad boyfriends. But when Neef becomes a teenager, and the pair move into a flat above a pub with Chrissy''s latest boyfriend, she meets Danny, and he becomes her whole world. Neef and Danny, Danny and Neef. Despite absent parents and small-town bigotry directed at Danny for the colour of his skin, they find solace in each other. They dream of a different life together, convinced that Neef''s stories and Danny''s near-magic touch with plants will get them there. But as they grow older, their relationship is beset by the same forces that hold their families hostage: substance abuse, poverty and racism. Fifteen years later, Neef is determined to stay anonymous as Je