In the Ditch
Author - Buchi Emecheta
About
‘Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel’ Adrianne Blue, Washington Post
Adah is a single mother of five, living in a dank, crumbling housing estate for ‘problem families’, avoiding the rats and rubbish. It’s not quite the new start in London she had planned. As she navigates the complicated welfare system that keeps her trapped in poverty, can she cling to her dream of a better life, and find somewhere that feels like home?
Buchi Emecheta’s scorching debut novel drew on her own experiences to paint a moving picture of hope, unexpected friendship, and survival.
‘A world rarely brought to life on the page… it deserves to reverberate through the decades’ Lucy Scholes, The Paris Review
Format: Paperback
Edition Type: First
Language: English
