Dominoes

byPhoebe McIntosh, Phoebe McIntosh (Read by)

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A warm, sweet, love story, and a thought-provoking examination of the British slave trade and its legacy. I found it humbling and hopeful and I really CARED about the characters' MARIAN KEYES

'Cracking dialogue, fascinating storyline, compelling characters and more. I loved this book' JACQUELINE CROOKS, author of Fire Rush

They already share a surname.
But will they share a future?

When Layla and Andy first meet, they can't believe they have the same surname. It feels like fate, almost too romantic to be true.

But Sera, Layla's best friend, has her doubts about Andy. As the pair fall deeper and deeper in love, she becomes more and more vocal about Layla settling down with a white boy. And then, only a few weeks before their wedding, Layla makes a devastating discovery about their shared name.

What seemed like a fairy-tale romance is rapidly derailed. In part propelled by Sera's rising anger, Layla begins to uncover parts of her history and identity that she had never imagined -- or, perhaps, had simply learnt to ignore. And now, she faces an impossible choice, between past and future, friendship and marriage, the personal and the political.

A powerful and thought-provoking debut from a writer destined for greatness

Red, Sarra Manning

About Phoebe McIntosh

Phoebe McIntosh is an actor and playwright based in London. She wrote and performed in a sell-out run of her first play, The Tea Diaries, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, followed by her solo show, Dominoes, which toured the South East and London in 2018. She has been a selected writer on the Soho Theatre Writers' Lab, Tamasha Playwrights and Talawa Firsts and her play, The Soon Life, was highly commended for the Tony Craze Award as well as being longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award and the Bruntwood Prize 2022. Phoebe won a place on the inaugural Tamasha x Hachette creative writing programme and was also selected for the Penguin Random House WriteNow programme in 2020. Dominoes was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2021 and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024.
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  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • ISBN: 9781529909081
  • Length: 572 minutes
  • Price: £14.00
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