Set over the course of three summers, this novel follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track - a university degree, a move out of home - but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee
Caleb Azumah Nelson Books


Open Water
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso, and finalist for the BBC Short Story Award, twenty-six-year old writer and photographer Caleb Azumah Nelson