Leila Mottley

From the author of the Booker-nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling — a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town. When Adela Woods tells her parents she's pregnant, they immediately send her a thousand miles away to stay with her grandmother in Padua Beach. The intention is that she will leave...

From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling: a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town. Adela, Emory, and Simone - three young women bound by chance, motherhood, and defiance. When Adela Woods is sent to her grandmother's house in a forgotten Florida beach town to have...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 – THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _________________ ‘Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore’ THE TIMES 'A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope' OPRAH WINFREY _________________ When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk. Kiara Johnson...