In Bloom

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The brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of Lives Like Mine...

Ever since Sols untimely death left her pregnant and alone at twenty-two, Delphs kept herself small as a form of self-protection. Now, over a decade later, she lives with their daughter Roche and her new partner Itsy, a kind and protective cabbie, on the fourteenth floor of Esplanade Point on the Essex coast.

But Delphs protective bubble bursts when Roche moves in with her estranged nan, Moon. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom. And when Roches snooping into her grandmothers past unearths a familial line of downtrodden women; a worrying pattern emerges. Has keeping small and safe truly been Delphs choice all these years

Praise for Lives Like Mine:
Londoner Eva VerdesLives Like Mineexplores the theme of a school-run affair and the complications and joys it brings to a dual-heritage mother struggling with her intolerant in-lawsIndependent

'A bitter sweet story of longing and self-discovery, of deceit and regret. Visceral, authentic and funny, Evas prose reads like something between a conversation and a confession. An exciting new voice and a joy to read'Kit de Waal

Eva's writing breaks new ground in a confident and original voice, with a sharp eye for detail, wonderful characterisation and some seriously badass humourYvvette Edwards, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel,A Cupboard Full of Coats

Lives Like Mineis an assured debut from a writer whos going to go far'Red Online

'Londoner Eva Verde's breathtaking novel'New!

Author Bio

Eva Verde is a writer from Forest Gate, East London. She is of dual heritage. Identity and class are recurring themes throughout her work as she studies towards an MA in Prose Fiction. Her love song to libraries, I Am Not Your Tituba forms part of Kit De Waals Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers with Unbound. Eva is a story contributor in the forthcoming Stories to Make You Smile Anthology for World Book Night 2021. Evas debut novel Lives Like Mine, will be published by Simon and Schuster in June 2021. Eva lives in Essex with her husband, three daughters and Labrador sons.