Buxton Spice

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 170. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Simone Rudder (priced £12.99 net to front flap).

Signed and dated by Author on date of publication.

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