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Candace Cartywilliams

    Candice Carty-Williams is an author celebrated for her incisive look at modern British society and its complex characters. Her writing often explores themes of identity, race, and class with wit and an empathetic understanding. Through her narratives, Carty-Williams offers a fresh and unsettling perspective on what it means to be young while searching for one's place in the world. Her works are lauded for their honesty and ability to capture the contemporary zeitgeist.

    People Person
    • 2023

      "If you could choose your family...you wouldn't choose the Penningtons. Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she's never felt more alone in her life. That is, until a dramatic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they're all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated. From an author with "a flair for storytelling that appears effortlessly authentic" (Time), People Person is a vibrant and charming celebration of discovering family as an adult"--

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