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Nugent Ashleigh - Locks - Hardcover
Nugent Ashleigh - Locks - Hardcover
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Description: ‘1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists and I became an angry Black lad with a “chip on his shoulder”’ Aeon a mixed - up and mixed - race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. He grows dreadlocks and immerses himself in ‘gangsta’ rap. But Aeon’s journey of self - discovery is hampered by the fact that the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin Increase. Aeon’s ambition to find his place in the world takes him to Jamaica. Here Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don’t necessarily help him to fit in. Within days of his arrival he is mugged arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the ‘ White boy’ he finds that his journey of self - discovery has only just begun – and he’s going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves A coming - of - age comedy of errors Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up wising up and finding your place in a world of opposites. _____ Blends humour and introspection poetry and the poignant - Derek Owusu author of the Desmond Elliott Prize - winning That Reminds Me Irreverent authentic and utterly enthralling. A wonderful book - Jimmy Mc Govern creator of the drama series Cracker Twisty energetic voice - led Nugent is pure talent - Raymond Antrobus author of the Rathbones Folio Prize - winning The Perseverance Thought provoking and funny - David Beckler author of A Long Shadow
Title: Locks
Author(s): Nugent Ashleigh
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529097894
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 6/22/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: ‘1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists and I became an angry Black lad with a “chip on his shoulder”’ Aeon a mixed - up and mixed - race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. He grows dreadlocks and immerses himself in ‘gangsta’ rap. But Aeon’s journey of self - discovery is hampered by the fact that the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin Increase. Aeon’s ambition to find his place in the world takes him to Jamaica. Here Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don’t necessarily help him to fit in. Within days of his arrival he is mugged arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the ‘ White boy’ he finds that his journey of self - discovery has only just begun – and he’s going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves A coming - of - age comedy of errors Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up wising up and finding your place in a world of opposites. _____ Blends humour and introspection poetry and the poignant - Derek Owusu author of the Desmond Elliott Prize - winning That Reminds Me Irreverent authentic and utterly enthralling. A wonderful book - Jimmy Mc Govern creator of the drama series Cracker Twisty energetic voice - led Nugent is pure talent - Raymond Antrobus author of the Rathbones Folio Prize - winning The Perseverance Thought provoking and funny - David Beckler author of A Long Shadow
Title: Locks
Author(s): Nugent Ashleigh
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529097894
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 6/22/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction