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A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancé’s family may have enslaved her ancestors“Simultaneously sweet and sobering, this is one you will not want to miss.”—Onyi Nwabineli, author of Someday, MaybeDominoes opens in London, twenty-nine days before a young couple’s wedding. Layla is a mixed-race woman—with a Black, Jamaican mother, and a white father she’s never met—and Andy is a white man of Scottish descent. When they first meet at a party, they can’t believe how instant their chemistry is, and how quickly their relationship unfolds. Funnily enough, they even share a last name: McKinnon.Layla’s best friend, Sera, isn’t so sure about Andy, or the fact that her best friend is engaged a white man. As the wedding approaches, Sera prompts her friend to research

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A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy' MARIAN KEYESWhen Layla and Andy first meet, they can''t believe they have the same surname. It feels like fate until they realise their families could be linked in the worst possible way.Sera, Layla's best friend, has her doubts about Andy right from the start. As the couple fall deeper in love, and start to plan their future, Sera becomes more and more vocal about Layla settling down with a white boy. And then, only a few weeks before their wedding, Layla makes a devastating discovery....What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is rapidly derailed as Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she had never imagined or, perhaps, had simply learnt to ignore.And now, she faces an impossible choice, between past and future, friendship and marriage, the personal and the political.**A ST

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''A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy'' MARIAN KEYES**A STYLIST UNMISSABLE BOOK FOR 2024**They already share a surname. But will they share a future?When Layla and Andy first meet, they can''t believe they have the same surname. It feels like fate, almost too romantic to be true.But Sera, Layla''s best friend, has her doubts about Andy. As the pair fall deeper and deeper in love, Sera becomes more and more vocal about Layla settling down with a white boy. And then, only a few weeks before their wedding, Layla makes a devastating discovery about their shared name.What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is rapidly derailed. In part propelled by Sera''s rising anger, Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she had never imagined -- or, perhaps, had simply learnt to ignore. And now, she faces an impossible choice, betw

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