SOCIETY WITHIN takes us back to the Greenside Estate, West London, scene of Courttia Newland's ground-breaking and hugely successful first novel, THE SCHOLAR. Newly arrived on the estate is Elisha: sweet, bright, sassy and just eighteen. As Elisha negotiates some new territory with more than fair share of dark corners, we take in the vividly interlocking lives of the other Greensiders: cool, ambitious Valerie, with some bad secrets to deal with; Little Stacey, looking for his first girl; Orin, dealing, stealing and trying to stay away from anything too lethal.
Courttia Newland tells gripping stories from real lives - stories of dreamers and fighters, love and revenge, friendship and betrayal - in a language burning with energy, originality and conviction.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349111803
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 222 g
Dimensions: 197 x 126 x 19 mm
Masterful ... Warm & witty ... an impressive achievement - GUARDIAN
Consolidates his position as one of Britain's most important young black novelists ... a truly gifted storyteller - TIME OUT
Fairly crackles with depictions of teenage temptations ... after the whitewash better known as NOTTING HILL, the antidote couldn't be better timed - i-D MAGAZINE
Should have Irvine Welsh weeping into his overhyped beer - GLASGOW HERALD
This is a real life story that comes with pain and dreams, friends and lovers, trust and betrayal and despair and hope - UNTOLD
Pulls no punches in its description of estate life as a mixture of community and ghetto ... his strength lies in the depiction of violence and menace - INDEPENDENT
Newland has a sharp curiosity that gives him both a maturity beyond his years and an energy that reinforces his youth - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Plenty of local dialect, bags of intrigue and characters you've sat next to on the bus. Moreish - 19
"Young, gifted and black!" If the phrase hadn't already been kicking around for a few decades it would have been invented for Courttia Newland ... Newland has held up a mirror to a part of our society that many people, especially those in the literary world, would otherwise not know about - or would maybe like to forget about - TOUCH
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