Open Water

Two young people meet in a South-East London pub. Both are black and as children won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong. Now working as artists – he’s a photographer and she’s a dancer – they’re battling to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively yet tenderly, the couple fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence. At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water questions what it means to live in a world that views people of colour as nothing more than Black bodies; to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength; and to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.

Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook, Hardcover, Audio CD & Paperback

Paperback: 384 Pages

Language: English