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GROW WHERE THEY FALL - MICHAEL DONKOR GEBUNDEN

'Michael Donkor is a real talent' SARAH WINMAN  author of Still Life'Hugely enjoyable and very
moving  Donkor's frank  clear-eyed and funny prose is so refreshing - an important voice in
contemporary British fiction' DIANA EVANS  author of Ordinary People Bright and precocious
ten-year-old Kwame Akromah knows how to behave. He knows the importance of good manners  how to
stay at the top of the class and out of the way when his mother and father are angry with each
other. But when his charismatic cousin Yaw arrives from Ghana to live with the family while he
looks for work  the rules Kwame has learned about the world can no longer guide him. Twenty
years later  Kwame is a secondary-school teacher  popular with his students and depended on by
his friends. His is a life spent elegantly weaving between the classroom  the labyrinth of
Grindr politics and increasingly intermittent visits to his parents' home. Behind the confident
façade  however  he is as driven by caution as he was as a boy. But when electrifying
changemaker Marcus Felix is appointed as headteacher  Kwame must reckon with himself as he
never has before. Can he face the ghosts of his childhood? How will he learn to move through
the world without losing who he is? And where does existing stop and living begin? Grow Where
They Fall is a beautifully written  spirited and deeply moving novel about a young man finding
the courage to expand the limits of who he might become  from the acclaimed author of
Hold.---'Brilliant ... Donkor shapes lives that are so rich in texture that you genuinely care
about who they are and what they're going through' JEFFREY BOAKYE'Radiant  deeply felt ... I
loved every shining moment' GUY GUNARATNE'A masterclass in immersive storytelling ... Donkor's
words make me proud to be a Black British man' ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE

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