Debut by Natasha Brown. Short, read it in one sitting over and hour or so en route to Berlin last week. A Black woman in the UK has done and still does all the so-called right things, but it is never enough to belong. Her boyfriend has all the advantages of intergenerational wealth. Why not create your own intergenerational wealth if you can, why not force the issue? For your sister if not for yourself.

E picked this book up during our August 2021 visit to Paris, browsing the shelves at Shakespeare & Company. These past few weeks I’ve been making a list of all the physical books we have at home, and that’s how I came across this one.

Brown has published a new novel, Universality, this spring, which has been longlisted for the Booker Prize. Added that one to my to read stack.