Emma Pass

When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again? It's 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts and obituaries, whilst dreaming of a more exciting life. Between her shifts as an ARP warden and caring for her ailing...

In Every Mirror She's Black is a sharply written story with messy, deeply moving characters, as praised by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Lizzie Damilola Blackburn shares her admiration: "I was captivated by the writing from page one... Powerful." The story of Kemi, Muna, and Brittany-Rae—Black women hoping to start anew in a society that does not see them—is, according to Chika...