Sweet Pea: A Novel

“A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power and emotional complexity.” ―Bernardine Evaristo

A beautiful portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman’s life, transformed by extraordinary love.

When Paulette arrived in England as a young girl, she left behind a grandmother in St. Kitts who called her “Sweet Pea,” taught her to cook, and admonished her to avoid temptation and embrace love and forgiveness, in that order.

Now, Paulette’s twenty-nine and within reach of her dream: a wedding, a...