A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always
been. "Wonderfully fresh zesty and sexy" BERNARDINE EVARISTO author of Girl Woman Other
"A story that seeps into you the way warm sunshine does at the final edges of winter" NICOLE
DENNIS-BENN author of Here Comes the Sun "Frank sexy and so tender. Little's pen shines"
BOLU BABALOLA author of Love in Colour "No book has captured the dialogue of millennial Black
London so well . . . This is a modern Black British love story that will become a future
classic" SYMEON BROWN author of Get Rich of Lie Trying "Bold and beautiful . . . [a] bracing
contemporary voice" MIKE JACKSON JOHN LEGEND and TY STIKLORIUS Elsie is a sexy funny and
fiercely independent woman in South London. But at just 28 she is also tired. Though she
spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal her nights are spent working long hours
for minimum wage at a neighbourhood gay bar. The difficulty of being estranged from her family
struggle of being continually rejected from jobs and fear of never making money doing what she
loves is too great. But Elsie is determined to keep the faith for a little longer at least.
Things will surely turn around. They have to. As she tries to breathe through the panic
attacks sleeping with her hot and spirited co-worker Bea isn't exactly straightforward and
offers Elsie just another place to hide. As Elsie tries to reconnect with her best friend
Juliet her fragile world spirals out of control. Can Elsie steady herself and not fall through
the cracks?
