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The Mercy Step: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 - Hardcover

Hutchinson Marcia

 
9781913175740: The Mercy Step: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 191317574X ISBN 13: 9781913175740
Verlag: Cassava Republic Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Taking us back in time to 1960s Bradford, The Mercy Step follows the precocious Mercy, a young child facing a world that is far too big for her small body. Mercy lives with her Windrush generation parents; she craves her mother's attention, which she must share with the Church and her many siblings, while trying to avoid the fists and temper of her father. Mercy struggles to find her place in the world, surrounded by flawed adults and a family she feels like an outsider in, her only joys her loyal doll Dolly and the escapism she finds in books. But Mercy is nothing if not resilient, and she takes up the fight to escape her traumatic upbringing, all while maintaining her humour, style and verve. A raw and tender story of family, isolation and growth.

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MARCIA HUTCHINSON was born to Windrush generation Jamaican parents in the UK in 1962. She was the first pupil from her comprehensive school to go to Oxford, where she gained an MA in Law. She worked as a lawyer before founding the educational publishing company Primary Colours, which she ran until 2014.

She was awarded an MBE in 2011 for services to Cultural Diversity. Moving to Manchester in 2012, she became a community activist and was eventually elected as a Labour Councillor in 2021. She is now a full-time writer and an active member of the Black Writers' Guild.

She is the co-author with Kate Griffin (under the pseudonym Lila Cain) of the historical fiction novel The Blackbirds of St Giles, which will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2025. The Mercy Step is her literary debut as a solo writer.

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Verlag
Cassava Republic Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
191317574X
ISBN 13 
9781913175740
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