Author: Harmer, Joyce Efia

Classic fiction (Children’s / Teenage)

Published on 28 March 2024 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
198 x 130 | 0g

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as TheTimesChildren’s Book of the Week.

Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.

Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she imagines escape. Meeting a strange boy whos not quite of this world, she decides to put her trust in him. But Jacob is from the twenty-first century. Desperate to give Obah a better life, he takes her back with him. At first it seems like dreams really do come true until the cracks begin