A powerful and thought-provoking debut from a writer destined for greatness -- Red * Sarra Manning * I found it humbling and hopeful and I really CARED about the characters -- MARIAN KEYES Electrifying debut * Good Housekeeping * Smart and thoughtful... intertwines the personal and the political with a soft deftness * Harper's Bazaar * A swoony romance is the starting point for a soul-searching look at the legacy of the British slave trade... a touching debut, unafraid to ask difficult questions * Mail on Sunday * Author Biography: Phoebe McIntosh is an actor and playwright from London. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival i

Phoebe McIntosh is an actor and playwright from London. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, followed by her solo show, Dominoes, which toured the South East and London in 2018. She has completed the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab programme, and her most recent full-length play, The Soon Life, was shortlisted and highly commended for the Tony Craze Award as well as being longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. Phoebe won a place on the inaugural Tamasha x Hachette creative writing programme in 2018 and was also selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow programme in 2020. Dominoes was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021.