Soon ComeKuba Shand-Baptiste Kuba Shand-BaptisteLabel: Dialogue BooksDescription: 'A triumph!' Yomi Adegoke author of The List'Sparkling . . . A beautiful celebration of the everyday defiance and quiet dreams of London's Caribbean community and what it means to belong.' Service95'Beautiful nuanced characters that I could have spent a lifetime with.' Nathan Bryon screenwriter of Rye LaneIn one tiny Caribbean restaurant three friends try to build a future in a country that refuses to see them.Judith came to Britain believing that hard work and respectability would keep her safe. Now a nurse she keeps her head down and sends money home quietly hoping her sacrifices will mean something.Mikey is angry restless and unafraid to speak truth to power - whether through protest or paint.And Frank? Frank's just trying to find joy wherever he can even if everything around him is falling apart.Their worlds collide in a small Caribbean restaurant in North West London where the smell of Scotch bonnet drifts out the windows and life-altering decisions are made between shifts and shared meals.Across the decades as new generations make their way in a city that changes around them what remains is community memory and the pulse of something unbreakable.Soon Come is a rich moving debut about migration friendship and the spaces we create when the world gives us none.
