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''Michael Donkor is a real talent'' SARAH WINMAN, author of Still Life

''Hugely enjoyable and very moving, Donkor''s frank, clear-eyed and funny prose is so refreshing - an important voice in contemporary British fiction'' DIANA EVANS, author of Ordinary People

Bright and precocious ten-year-old Kwame Akromah knows how to behave. He knows the importance of good manners, how to stay at the top of the class and out of the way when his mother and father are angry with each other. But when his charismatic cousin Yaw arrives from Ghana to live with the family while he looks for work, the rules Kwame has learned about the world can no longer guide him.

Twenty years later, Kwame is a secondary-school teacher, popular with his students and depended on by his friends. His is a life spent elegantly weaving between the classroom, the labyrinth of Grindr politics and increasingly intermittent visits to his parents' home. Behind the confident façade, how

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''Michael Donkor is a real talent'' SARAH WINMAN, author of Still Life''Hugely enjoyable and very moving, Donkor''s frank, clear-eyed and... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 3/7/2024
    ISBN13: 9780241656853, 978-0241656853
    ISBN10: 0241656850

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    ''Michael Donkor is a real talent'' SARAH WINMAN, author of Still Life

    ''Hugely enjoyable and very moving, Donkor''s frank, clear-eyed and funny prose is so refreshing - an important voice in contemporary British fiction'' DIANA EVANS, author of Ordinary People

    Bright and precocious ten-year-old Kwame Akromah knows how to behave. He knows the importance of good manners, how to stay at the top of the class and out of the way when his mother and father are angry with each other. But when his charismatic cousin Yaw arrives from Ghana to live with the family while he looks for work, the rules Kwame has learned about the world can no longer guide him.

    Twenty years later, Kwame is a secondary-school teacher, popular with his students and depended on by his friends. His is a life spent elegantly weaving between the classroom, the labyrinth of Grindr politics and increasingly intermittent visits to his parents' home. Behind the confident façade, how

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