Wow what a breath of fresh air. I throughly enjoyed the story and it isn’t like anything I can remember reading. It struck a cord with me and left me wondering and thinking which is what the best books do.
The characters came alive from the pages and told their story.
I would happily purchase this book for friends. Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity of reading this book.

This is a story which captures the atmosphere of the times very well, including appropriate language which was used then (although this dismayed one reviewer here!). The treatment of the Windrush generation is well documented and the plight of unmarried mothers depicted accurately here seems horrendous to our eyes in the 21st century. Although a worthy subject it was was written in a simplistic, dated way and little romanticised with its happy(ish) ending and polarised good/bad characters. I found it to be a little bit tame and boring.

A hard book to read given the recent Windrush scandals. The characters are extremely well written. I really didn’t want to keep reading it as it was really difficult to read the struggles of this lovely young man. I found the language difficult even paying lipservice to the point that it was used during this time.

Sorry but the language in this book it's horrid to use the n word is just wrong ok so the book was set back in the 1940s but you could of found a different word to use that n word is evil and cruel it's 2019. Just goes somehow people think they can get away with anything as long a as its in a book.
I will never buy this book in a million years