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Dominoes

"This timely, compelling debut explores the legacies of the British slave trade through the love story of a Londoner whose fiancé’s family has connections to her Jamaican ancestors."

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Thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging, Phoebe McIntosh’s Dominoes sees the love of a lifetime thrown into conflicted disarray when a Londoner born to a Black British-Jamaican mother and an absent white father falls for a man whose ancestors profited from the British slave trade. 

Moving from London, to Jamaica and back again as its protagonist experiences the enduring impact of slavery, and a palpable pull between her past, present and future, Dominoes also explores the injustices of the ongoing Windrush scandal, colourism, family love, romantic love, and what it means to be free, and to honour ancestors.

All this is wrapped up as an un-put-down-able love story that begins when Layla meets Andy at a party. Sparks fly from the off (they even share the same surname), so they move in together and get engaged. But Layla’s best friend Sera isn’t convinced by the match — not when Andy’s aunt makes a comment about Layla’s light skin at their engagement party, and definitely not when it emerges that Andy’s wealthy family had been slaveowners in Jamaica. Angry, but also “full of care and love”, Sera can’t watch her friend marry him. At the same time, Layla is unbearably torn: “I felt like a traitor”.

With a countdown to the couple’s wedding adding to the rising tension, Layla journeys to Jamaica with her mother and grandad, where she reconnects with her generous-hearted family, makes startling discoveries, and receives beautiful, edifying words from her grandfather: “With freedom, nobody can tell you what fi do, who fi love. With freedom der not one race better than any odda. Bab, you free. Go live, free. Go love, free. That is di most important t’ing you can both do to honour our ancestors.”

Joanne Owen

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