Set over the course of three summers, this novel follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track - a university degree, a move out of home - but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee
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 - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.