The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London - by the multi-award-winning author dubbed 'one of the literary giants of our time' (New York Times)**A Guardian book to look forward to in 2025**`A masterful stylist writing at the top of his powers' Anthony Joseph`An engrossing, artfully constructed chronicle of lives tragically unfulfilled' Mail on Sunday`A remarkable achievement' Washington Post`A moving, accomplished study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys throughout the world' Financial Times____________________________________________In the early Sixties, Victor `Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work, first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill - then as a rent collector for unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Victor in London from his early struggles to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile - and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation. ___________________________________________________Praise for Caryl Phillips`One of Britain's pre-eminent writers' Guardian`One of the literary giants of our time' New York Times`Phillips is a linguistic and cultural virtuoso' The Times
