Soon Come

<p><b>'Will stick with you long after you've left the page. A triumph!' </b>Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST<br><b>'Combined my favourite things, art and Caribbean food, with beautiful, nuanced characters that I could have spent a lifetime with.' </b>Nathan Bryon, screenwriter of RYE LANE<br><br><b>In one tiny Caribbean restaurant, three friends try to build a future in a country that refuses to see them.</b><br><br>Judith came to Britain believing that hard work and respectability would keep her safe. Now a nurse, she keeps her head down and sends money home, quietly hoping her sacrifices will mean something.<br><br>Mikey is angry, restless and unafraid to speak truth to power - whether through protest or paint.<br><br>And Frank? Frank's just trying to find joy wherever he can, even if everything around him is falling apart.<br><br>Their worlds collide in a small Caribbean restaurant in North West London, where the smell of Scotch bonnet drifts out the windows and life-altering decisions are made between shifts and shared meals.<br><br>Across the decades, as new generations find their way in a city that changes around them, what remains is community, memory and the pulse of something unbreakable.<br><br><b><i>Soon Come</i> is a rich, moving debut about migration, friendship and the spaces we create when the world gives us none. Inspired by true stories, this is a celebration of the everyday defiance and quiet dreams of London's Caribbean community - and what it means to belong.</b><br><b><br>'A captivating work of art by one of Britain's most imaginative minds.' </b>Kelechi Okafor, author of EDGE OF HERE<br><b>'The reader is in safe hands with this writer . . . She is a humanist storyteller, an authoritative author.'</b> Hugh Quarshie</p>