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Author: Raymond E. Slacker
Genres: Literary Fiction
September 2022. The Queen is dead, the country is performing its grief, and a young man named Coronation is filmed crying outside the palace gates. By Christmas the clip has become a single. By spring the single is in the charts.
Chantelle runs a cafe and runs on positivity, the kind that has been practised so long it has become armour, and which is beginning to crack under the weight of her father's dying. Ugo has spent his working life in sewage and commercial waste, has missed every chance he was ever offered, and is still measuring himself against Patrick, the man who left him and became someone else entirely. Wen is holding on to her place in Britain by whatever means the system will accept, including a story about her marriage that she is slowly, carefully teaching herself to believe.
None of them know Coronation. All of them are living in the country that made him. As the months slide from a funeral towards a crowning, three lives circle and brush against one another, and one man's improbable rise gathers towards a Coronation Day that nobody will forget.
Sharp, tender and unexpectedly funny, Great Expectations is a novel about hope in a country that keeps promising it and withholding it, about grief interrupted by a coffee mug in a handbag, and about what it costs to keep believing things will get better.
For readers of Diana Evans's Ordinary People, Oisin McKenna's Evenings and Weekends, and Candice Carty-Williams's People Person.
Author: Raymond E. Slacker
Genres: Literary Fiction
September 2022. The Queen is dead, the country is performing its grief, and a young man named Coronation is filmed crying outside the palace gates. By Christmas the clip has become a single. By spring the single is in the charts.
Chantelle runs a cafe and runs on positivity, the kind that has been practised so long it has become armour, and which is beginning to crack under the weight of her father's dying. Ugo has spent his working life in sewage and commercial waste, has missed every chance he was ever offered, and is still measuring himself against Patrick, the man who left him and became someone else entirely. Wen is holding on to her place in Britain by whatever means the system will accept, including a story about her marriage that she is slowly, carefully teaching herself to believe.
None of them know Coronation. All of them are living in the country that made him. As the months slide from a funeral towards a crowning, three lives circle and brush against one another, and one man's improbable rise gathers towards a Coronation Day that nobody will forget.
Sharp, tender and unexpectedly funny, Great Expectations is a novel about hope in a country that keeps promising it and withholding it, about grief interrupted by a coffee mug in a handbag, and about what it costs to keep believing things will get better.
For readers of Diana Evans's Ordinary People, Oisin McKenna's Evenings and Weekends, and Candice Carty-Williams's People Person.