WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD "Open Water is tender poetry, a love song to Black art and thought, an exploration of intimacy and vulnerability...
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WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION
A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black artists falling in and out of love. Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists -...