The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist
This vivid story of a Caribbean childhood in 1960s Bradford does not stint on accounts of poverty and systemic abuse, yet is pungent with wit and colour ‘I remember growing up and smelling lanolin everywhere and the wisps of wool just floating around,” debut novelist Marcia Hutchinson has said (…)
Site référencé: The Guardian (Africa)
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The Guardian (Africa)
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