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Home Girl

When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.

Part of our Black Sheep imprint for young readers.

This isn’t my home. Haven’t had a proper home since ... This is just somewhere I’ll be resting my bones for a week and maybe a bit. This time next year you’ll forget who I am. I haven’t got a diddly where I’ll be by then. But I’m used to it.

New from the best-selling black British author Alex Wheatle, Home Girl is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the foster care system. It is a wholly modern story which sheds a much-needed light on what can be an unsettling life — and the consequences that follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard.

Home Girl is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic, and full of courage — just like Naomi. This is Alex Wheatle’s most moving and personal novel to date.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 280
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780349003252
  • Genres
  • contemporary, fiction, teen, family
  • Release date
  • 2019