PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Moses McKenzie is of Caribbean descent and grew up in Bristol, where his first two novels are set. His debut, An Olive Grove in Ends, which Moses wrote at the age of twenty-one, was listed as a Guardian Novel of the Year 2022 and shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award 2023. He was named one of The Observer's 10 Must-Read Debut Novelists of 2022, and won the inaugural Soho House Breakthrough Writer Award the same year. He is currently working on the TV adaptation of An Olive Grove in Ends, and has recently completed his second novel, Fast by the Horns, which will publish in spring 2024.
What struck me most forcibly about AN OLIVE GROVE IN ENDS was the poetic strength and majesty of its prose . . . This consummately crafted work can only be a harbinger of a stellar and truly significant career. I urge you to read it' * Patrick McCabe, author of THE BUTCHER BOY * [An Olive Grove in Ends] is magnificent. Moses' talent is off the scale. I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately and it's a long time since a novel gripped me so tightly . . . This is a phenomenally good novel, tense and thrilling and complex, with breath-stealing moments on every page. And the language. Oh, man. * Donal Ryan, author of THE SPINNING HEART *
