{"product_id":"9780349704975","title":"Soon Come","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Kuba Shand-Baptiste\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 25 September 2025 by John Murray Press (Dialogue Books) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e161 x 242 x 25mm | 442g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Will stick with you long after you've left the page. A triumph!' Yomi Adegoke, author of THE LIST'Combined my favourite things, art and Caribbean food, with 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMikey is angry, restless and unafraid to speak truth to power - whether through protest or paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Frank? Frank's just trying to find joy wherever he can, even if everything around him is falling apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the decades, as new generations find their way in a city that changes around them, what remains is community, memory and the pulse of something unbreakable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Come is a rich, moving debut about migration, friendship and the spaces we create when the world gives us none. Inspired by true stories, this is a celebration of the everyday defiance and quiet dreams of London's Caribbean community - and what it means to belong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A captivating work of art by one of Britain's most imaginative minds.' Kelechi Okafor, author of EDGE OF HERE'The reader is in safe hands with this writer . . . She is a humanist storyteller, an authoritative author.' Hugh Quarshie\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuba Shand-Baptiste","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483891179845,"sku":"9780349704975","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780349704975.jpg?v=1774433084","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780349704975","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}