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Maddie Wright, twenty-five, works a job she hates in London and looks after her father, who has Parkinson's, while her mother spends most of the year in Ghana, until a chance to move out gives her a life of her own.
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The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
Sankofa
Anna Bain, a mixed-race woman in London whose marriage has ended and whose mother has just died, finds her mother's old diary and learns that her father was a West African student who went on to rule his country.
Swing Time
Two mixed-race girls from a London housing estate who meet at a dance class take different paths, one a talented dancer, the other an assistant to a global pop star, in a novel about race, talent and envy.
The Crow Road
Home for a funeral, student Prentice McHoan starts looking into the disappearance of his uncle Rory, a writer who vanished years before, in a novel that is part mystery, part family saga and part love letter to Argyll.
Gravel Heart
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s, puzzled that his father has moved out of the family home, and is sent to study in London, where he lives with his uncle.
Blue Sisters
A year after their sister Nicky's death, the three remaining Blue sisters, a lawyer in London, a boxer in Los Angeles and a model in Paris, come back to New York to stop their parents selling the family apartment.
This Is How It Always Is
Rosie and Penn have four boisterous sons when their fifth, Claude, starts saying he wants to wear dresses and be a girl when he grows up, and the family moves across the country to give the child a fresh start.
Queenie
Queenie Jenkins, a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British journalist in London, comes apart after her white boyfriend asks for a break, making one bad choice after another while her friends and family try to keep up.
The Finkler Question
Julian Treslove, a former BBC producer, is mugged on his way home from dinner with two old friends, both Jewish, and becomes convinced his attacker took him for a Jew.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An Irish-American girl grows up poor in early-twentieth-century Williamsburg on her mother's stubbornness and her doomed father's charm, and the Brooklyn she walks to school in is its own weather.
Wise Children
On her seventy-fifth birthday, a showgirl twin recounts a century of her scandalous theatrical family.
His Only Wife
Afi Tekple, a young seamstress in a small Ghanaian town, is married to Elikem, a wealthy man she barely knows, who misses the wedding, and moves to Accra, where she learns that his family married her to him to draw him away from another woman.