Buxton Spice

Proof copy. 8vo. 170pp. Paper wraps.

Author's critically acclaimed first book. Long-listed for the Orange Prize. A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in a fictional village in 1970s Guyana and told – partially in dialect – in the spirited voice of a girl as she makes the transition from childhood into adolescence. "A superb, and superbly written, novel of childhood and childhood's end." –Patrick Markee, New York Times Book Review