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The Mercy Step

by Marcia Hutchinson
ebook
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD - DISCOVER PRIZE 'Dark, humorous, and passionately captures the unique realities of the northern Black experience' — The Observer A sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl's quiet rebellion and her refusal to be broken Set in 1960s Bradford, The Mercy Step follows Mercy, a precocious young child facing a world far too big for her small body. She lives with her Windrush-generation parents in a crowded household where her mother's attention is stretched between church and family, and her father's temper is something to be endured or avoided. Feeling like an outsider within her own home, Mercy retreats into books and the companionship of her beloved doll, Dolly, while learning early how to navigate the flaws and failings of the adults around her. Yet Mercy is nothing if not resilient. Armed with humour, style and fierce imagination, she quietly begins to plot her escape from a traumatic childhood. A raw and deeply affecting novel of childhood, family and survival in 1960s Britain.

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  • English