Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn

A south London odyssey following Tobias, who sells counterfeit tobacco to fund his mother's return to Jamaica. The city reveals spectres of his community's history and an uncertain future.

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.

It is the near-future, and even the prediction of one's own death comes with its racialized privilege.