β Scribed by Michael Donkor
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One of the Observer's New Faces of Fiction 2018 Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, moving, powerful coming-of-age novel. It's a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go. 'You have to imagine. That's how I told myself.''Imagine what?''Imagine that you are the kind of girl that can cope with it, even if you are not.' Belinda knows how to follow the rules. She has learnt the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi to be a housegirl. Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven years old and irrepressible, the young housegirl-in-training is the little sister Belinda never had. Amma has had enough of the rules. A straight-A pupil at her exclusive South-London school, she has always been the pride of her Ghanaian parents. Until now. Watching their once-confident...
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