'Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality. confirms Mohamed's stature as one of Britain's best young novelists' Stylist, on The Orchard of Lost Souls 'A moving and captivating tale of survival and hope. And, under the shadow of the hangman's noose, he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of freedom dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a terrifying fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and the inhumanity of the state. But Mahmood is secure in his innocence in a country where, he thinks, justice is served. It is true that he has been getting into trouble more often since his Welsh wife Laura left him. Nadifa Mohamed’s latest novel, her third, takes one of the United Kingdom’s most notorious miscarriages of justice for its. So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. He is many things, in fact, but he is not a murderer. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families.
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