People Person - From the bestselling author of Queenie and the writer of BBC's Champion
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| Verlag | Orion Publishing Group |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 368 |
| Format | 15,2 x 2,8 x 23,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 451 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781409180111 |
| Bestell-Nr | 40918011UA |
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming.
People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson
Wonderful. Marian Keyes
I loved it. Sara Collins
It's as warm and infectious, as familiar and true as Queenie. Diana Evans
IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY...
YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues.
Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she's never felt more alone.
That is, until a catas trophic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they're all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated.
Rezension:
Wonderful. People Person is about 5 half-siblings (1 dad, 4 mothers) who, in response to a crisis, meet as adults and start shaping themselves into a family. It's a warm novel, funny and full of emotional intelligence. The tone is light-hearted, even comic at times, but underneath there's an undertow, a steady drumbeat reminding us of all the microaggressions black people experience on a daily basis - and that white people are mostly oblivious of. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Marian Keyes