Bernard and the cloth monkey - Judith Bryan

The Winner of the 1997 Saga Prize.

You can always go home again. But sometimes, for some people, it's the hardest thing of all to do. Anita is one of these people. But after all this time, with her dad dead, she might just be ready now, ready to face her ghosts.

This stirring, unsettling book has it all - incest, suicide, wife-beating, lesbianism, an imaginary twin, sibling rivalry, the works

Full-on drama

An unforgettable heroine in Anita

Psychological subtlety

Tackles black British taboos - the sanctity of the Mother; the ambitions & secrets of the black middle class

A great new black British writer in Judith Bryan