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Open Water – Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award

Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award”A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love” Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of `Queenie` 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.At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, `Open Water` asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.”An amazing debut novel. You should read this book. Let`s hear it for Caleb Azumah Nelson, also known as the future” Benjamin Zephaniah

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