'A remarkable debut; quietly devastating and beautifully wrought' Jendella Benson 'Heartbreaking and uplifting' Jacob Ross 'Warm, engrossing, deeply moving. I loved these characters' Holly Brickley 'Expansive, surprising, delightful, vulnerable and always real' Olumide Popoola 'Brilliant. I read it in one enthralled sitting' Peter Scalpello 'Love was a tightrope between freedom and control. He didn't know how others seemed to walk it with ease' This is the challenge Elom and his family face in the years before his unexpected death. Caught between his well-meaning yet misapprehending family, his boisterous friends, and his self-assured partner Ben, Elom struggles to fit in. All he ever wants is to feel understood - but what does it mean to live authentically when the only thing changing faster than the world around you is the world within? Moving between Accra, Glasgow and London, Selali Fiamanya's extraordinary debut asks what it means to love and be loved in return. Before We Hit the Ground is an intimate portrait of a family, and one man's struggle to find his place. Gold title * A powerful and moving family drama with prize-winning potential, from the winner of the Borough Press Open Submission Prize * Sits confidently on the literary end of the Borough list * An opportunity to grow a promising, young, home-grown talent, with an aim to position the author alongside upcoming literary writers like Caleb Azumah Nelson and Cecile Pin * For fans of Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom, Jessica Andrews' Saltwater and Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water * Opportunity for work with regional booksellers as the novel is set across Glasgow, Accra, London and the islands of the Outer Hebrides * Selali lives and works in Glasgow, where he is training to be a GP Competition: Open Water;Transcendent Kingdom;Girl,Woman,Other;Ordinary People;Saltwater;Assembly;We Are All Birds of Uganda;Shuggie Bain;The Promise;Young Mungo;Rainbow Milk.
Yaa Gyasi;Caleb Azumah Nelson;Bernardine Evaristo;Diana Evans;Inua Ellams;Douglas Stuart;Cecile Pin;Damon Galgut;Jessica Andrews.