Dominoes

'A must-read... compulsively timely novel' Stylist When Layla and Andy first meet, they can't believe they have the same surname. It feels like fate… Sera, Layla’s best friend, has her doubts about Andy. As the couple fall deeper in love, Sera becomes more and more vocal about Layla settling down with a white boy. And then, only a few weeks before their wedding, Layla makes a devastating discovery – could their families be linked in the worst possible way?What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is rapidly derailed as Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she had never imagined – or, perhaps, had simply learnt to ignore. And now, she faces an impossible choice. **A STYLIST UNMISSABLE BOOK FOR 2024**‘A warm, sweet love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy’ MARIAN KEYES'I loved this book' JACQUELINE CROOKS, author of Fire Rush'So kind and smart and clear-eyed' HOLLY GRAMAZIO, author of The HusbandsREADERS LOVE DOMINOES:‘Tender, thought-provoking and hard-hitting’‘Kept me second guessing how things would turn out until the very end’‘Incredibly thought-provoking’‘Such an important novel’‘I laughed, I cried, I learned A LOT’‘So much more than a love story’