Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD. LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE.
In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. When Dawn Bishop was sixteen, she left her home in Trinidad and journeyed across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gave birth to a baby girl and returned to Trinidad alone.
Dawn tried to carry on with her life: a move to England, a marriage, two sons and a divorce. But she never stopped thinking of her daughter and of what might have been. Forty years later, a woman gets in touch on an internet forum, claiming that she might be her long-lost daughter.
Dawn dares to hope that this may be a way back to her past. Could she finally give form to all the love and care a mother has left to offer?
Paperback
Publication: 21 May 2026, Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571339563
Extent: 304 pages
