The Icarus Girl was a featured book on the BBC Page Turners programme and was shortlisted for a British Book Award The Icarus Girl received stunning review coverage and has sold nearly 40,000 copies to date For fans of The Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and 26a by Diana Evans

Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London, leaving her with one complete memory: a woman singing - in a voice both eerie and enthralling - at their farewell party. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja herself is a singer, pregnant and haunted by what she calls 'her Cuba'.