'An elegant coming-of-age tale about confronting the ghosts of our childhood queer love and
finding the courage to live a bigger and better life for ourselves' The i 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
