{"product_id":"smallie-by-eden-mckenzie-goddard","title":"Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Tender, lyrical and strikingly assured... In its mosaic of Caribbean immigrant life in London, SMALLIE echoes the emotional reach of Andrea Levy’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSmall Island\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Gorgeous and heartwrenching’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCaleb Azumah Nelson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘An electrifying and important debut’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRachel Joyce\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSmallie adj. |smal·lie|\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDefinition: Caribbean (informal). Describing or relating a person from a small island; a small islander.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1961, nineteen-year-old Lucinda Brown travels to England in search of her son’s father, Clarence Braithwaite, who left Barbados to join the British army. But aboard the ship to Southampton she meets a man named Raldo who offers her a glimpse of a new life, a freer life. Bound by the memory of her son waiting at home, she chooses Clarence – realizing too late that war has made a stranger out of him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNearly fifty years later, Lucinda receives a letter from the Home Office that threatens to tear her world apart. Her children rally together to prove her legal arrival in the UK, but to do so they must track down an elusive man from her past, a man she wanted to love but instead lost, a man who now holds the key to her family’s future. Raldo . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn exhilarating and expansive tale of a family thrown into collision with the Windrush scandal, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSmallie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows just how easily the past can spill into our lives, even when – especially when – we think we’ve closed the door on it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'An important novel that rises to the challenge of accountability and modern justice' DIANA EVANS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘A sharp, tender debut that traverses generations of one family’ YOMI SODE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e brilliant and deeply moving debut\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e of the West Indian experience in Britain during the so-called ‘Windrush’ era'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCHERIE JONES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENG01","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57651230409084,"sku":"9780241733684","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0088\/7855\/5193\/files\/81XViKp18ML._SY522.jpg?v=1791817537","url":"https:\/\/shop.southbankcentre.co.uk\/products\/smallie-by-eden-mckenzie-goddard","provider":"Southbank Centre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}