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How Far We've Come

(2023)
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Awards
2024 Branford Boase Award (longlist)

From debut author, Joyce Efia Harmer, comes a groundbreaking YA story of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip novel exploring the legacy of slavery.

'Both hopeful and heartbreaking, this gripping book turns a searchlight on the changing faces of injustice through time.'
The Guardian 
'A brilliant idea and a powerful debut'
The Times
'A seriously impressive debut. Read it now.'
The Irish Times

Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.

Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she imagines escape. Meeting a strange boy who’s not quite of this world, she decides to put her trust in him. But Jacob is from the twenty-first century. Desperate to give Obah a better life, he takes her back with him. At first it seems like dreams really do come true – until the cracks begin to show and Obah sees that freedom comes at an unimaginable cost . . .

Both hopeful and devastating, this powerful novel about equality, how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go introduces an extraordinary new literary voice.



Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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