''Absolutely loving this . . . A great storyteller and a fabulous actor. Well done, sir!'' DAVID HAREWOOD, actor and author of Maybe I Don''t Belong Here
''Phenomenal! Highly recommended'' MALORIE BLACKMAN, author of Noughts and Crosses
''Sings with the words of a man who survives his struggles, and expresses himself through music, language and love'' GRETCHEN GERZINA, author, historian and academic
Meet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told.
I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more...
It''s 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have closed their doors for the night, Sancho