Smallie

In 1961, 19-year-old Lucinda Brown travels to England in search of her lover, Clarence Braithwaite, a jazz musician who left Barbados to join the British army. Aboard the ship to Southampton, Lucinda meets Raldo, a free-wheeling Trinidadian, who offers her the wild freedom that both her old life in Barbados and the life that awaits her in Britain lack. Driven by loyalty, and the memory of the little boy she left behind, she chooses Clarence - though soon realises that he is no longer the saxophonist she fell in love with, but a veteran at war with himself.
Fifty years later, Patrick Braithwaite, a father, husband, business owner and recovering alcoholic from Tottenham, has to rally his three siblings when their mother receives a letter from the Home Office that tears their life apart. They need to prove their mother's legal arrival, to prevent her deportation, and to do that they need to find a man their mother once loved, known only by the name of Raldo...
Tender, rich and big-hearted, Smallie is a stunning British debut about three generations of a Bajan-British family affected by the Windrush scandal that will move, enrage and pull you in.

Eden McKenzie-Goddard is a UK-based writer and podcaster, with Barbadian-Jamaican roots. His work often sheds light on the lives of the forgotten and brings their stories to the forefront. In 2018, Eden co-founded the top 30 music and culture podcast Don't Alert The Stans - commended by Apple Podcasts, Complex, Beats By Dre and more. Eden has a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from University of Westminster and has worked in the publishing industry for the last decade (in Sales at HarperCollins). SMALLIE is his first novel.