AuthorBernardine Evaristo
NarratorMalachi Kirby
Duration1h 44m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Literature
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
VersionUnabridged
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It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.
The boy's motherwonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?
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