AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025
WINNER OF THE #MERKY BOOKS 2022 NEW WRITERS'' PRIZE
''Sticky, twisting and dangerous . . . compels, unravelling the fraught strings that keep the elite class together and asking if an outsider can ever truly belong in their fold''
REBECCA K REILLY
''This summer''s hottest read''
SUNDAY TIMES
''Beautifully written and well-paced . . . builds tension as it approaches an exciting revelation''
JACQUELINE CROOKS
''Very hard to put down . . . A truly gripping story about privilege and perspective from a writer with a sharp pen and a wicked sense of humour whose incredible career is only just beginning''
ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS
''Smart, bracing, sexy . . . I was completely gripped''
JACK PARLETT
-A stunning and tender debut. Sultry and compulsive. Full of heart-
SOULA EMMANUEL
It-s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxur