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Open Water (1st paperback ed)

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A NO.1 BESTSELLER IN THE TIMES

'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer
'Hands-down the best debut I've read in years' The Times

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.

'A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and sometimes painful depths of love' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE

'An unforgettable debut... it's Sally Rooney meets Michaela Coel meets Teju Cole' New York Times

'A love song to Black art and thought' Yaa Gyasi, bestselling author of HOMEGOING and TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM

'A very touching and heartfelt book' Diana Evans, award-winning author of ORDINARY PEOPLE

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Penguin
0241989477 / 9780241989470
eBook (EPUB)
823.92
04/02/2021
England
English
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160 pages
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