EAN: 9781529064575

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Two children trapped in the same attic almost a century apart bound by a secret. 1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an unpaid servant he dreams of his family in Africa even if as the years pass he struggles to remember his mother's face and sometimes his real name . . . Almost a century later Lowra a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege will find herself banished to the same attic. Lying under the floorboards of the room is an old porcelain doll an unusual beaded claw necklace and most curiously a sentence etched on the wall behind an old cupboard written in an unidentifiable language. Artefacts that will offer her a strange kind of comfort and lead her to believe that she was not the first child to be imprisoned there . . . A hauntingly powerful emotionally charged and unique dual-narrative novel about family secrets love and loss identity and belonging seen through the lens of Black British History.

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