276°
Posted 20 hours ago

An Olive Grove in Ends: The dazzling debut novel about love, faith and community, by an electrifying new voice

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

He’s in love with Shona, has been since grade school, and she loves him too in spite of his family and his own less than squeaky clean record.

An Olive Grove in Ends: The dazzling debut novel about love An Olive Grove in Ends: The dazzling debut novel about love

Then Siu was cast in this year’s BBC adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s bestselling novel Everything IKnow About Love. p>

Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. With so many uncles and cousins involved in the drug trade it’s hard for him to imagine another life but if he wants a life with Shona he will ultimately have to find a way out. And that’s what all these characters are concerned about, or not concerned about: they’re not even really thinking about earthly punishment. If I hadn't picked this up under the context of reading Booker-eligible nominations, maybe I'd have had lower expectations too.The attending officers who were standing beside the tape scanned the crowds, looking for admissions of guilt in the dark faces of passing strangers, but I made it impossible for them, or anyone else watching, to read my trepidation. I had an appointment to keep and would be late if I dawdled, but as I approached the crime scene I felt I needed something to ease my spirit; and good company, even brief, could do that. A classic story of two people from different paths in life, which adds moral ground and understanding to the protagonist’s direction: Shona being a rock, almost flawless. Growing up, Sayon found respite from the chaos of his environment in the love and loyalty of his brother-in-arms, Cuba; in the example of his cousin Hakim, a man once known as the most infamous drug-dealer in their neighbourhood, now a proselytising Muslim; and in the tenderness of his girl, Shona, whose own sense of purpose galvanises Sayon’s. Both are children of priests – one, Pastor Hughes, is the patriarch of an extended criminal family renowned for their violence, and the other, Pastor Lyle, though sceptical about his daughter’s boyfriend, is “a man who had dragged the darkness from his past”, and sees something of himself in Sayon.

Clients | The Ampersand Agency Moses McKenzie | Clients | The Ampersand Agency

It would always have a place in my heart, a certain fondness I kept in acknowledgement of how it had shaped the man I had become.Still, I hated it because there was nowhere I was better known, a fact I would soon come to find more troublesome than I’d ever imagined. The moment you left the city's centre you could hear or smell Ends, whether you took a left after Stapes, or carried straight through Old Market. The adults told the officer that they were good friends with the owners, who were weekending, and that they had heard a crash out back and nothing since. Though there are some sluggish digressions in the form of flashbacks, and the occasional sentence that falls flat (“I spent the second half of Year 7 in a wonderful haze”), the depiction of 00s childhoods will resonate with anyone who can remember fashion brands such as Avirex, filesharing program LimeWire and US sitcom Moesha. The school was more than seventy per cent Black but the higher sets were more Middle-Eastern, Vietnamese and Pakistani, which was an unsettling fact for one of the only cities in the country whose Black population was bigger than its Asian.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment