Emily Usher

Neef has always been a storyteller and her story now, working in a café in London, is that her name is Jennifer. Jennifer never knew a boy called Danny, never loved him, never had him wrenched away from her. But when Neef was a teenager, and her troubled mother moved them into a flat above a pub in a working-class...

'Aches with hard-won hope and bruised tenderness' – Colin Walsh, author of Kala 'An intoxicating debut from a compelling new voice' – Adelle Stripe, author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile Neef and Danny. Danny and Neef. They were inseparable for all those years. Outsiders in their rural Yorkshire town, they clung to an imagined future achieved through Neef's...