Smallie

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.<>

About the author

Eden McKenzie-Goddard is a writer with Barbadian-Jamaican roots. Smallie is his first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Eden McKenzie-Goddard
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.05.2026
• EAN: 9780241733691
• ISBN: 978-0-241-73369-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Barbados, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, FICTION / Own Voices, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, FICTION / Immigration, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Narrative theme: diversity, equity, equality, inclusion