The Recovery House - Derek Owusu

'What a beautiful book, it’s like a hug, or a gentle holding of a hand' MICHAELA COEL‘As disarming as it is gripping, The Recovery House is a fluid, bruised and beautiful brooch of a book’ INUA ELLAMS'The Recovery House is a work of the soul. It's some of the most earnest, beautiful writing I've come across in years' JO HAMYA'So rich, emotional and wise, distilling it all into a finely textured work of tenderness, love, camaraderie and human resilience' COURTTIA NEWLAND'I was deeply moved... each vignette feels like a small gift, told in a voice that will linger with me' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'There are writers who both survive things and understand them. Brutal, precise, and full of light' YRSA DALEY-WARD'I loved this beautiful book' SARAH BERNSTEINA Granta Best Young British NovelistJamal, a gifted and introspective young poet, wakes in a quiet, claustrophobic recovery house after a devastating mental breakdown, unsure how the bright edges of his life became so fractured. In this stark yet strangely tender sanctuary, with its watchful nurses, restless corridors and overlooked garden, he encounters several wounded, but radiant souls who are each wrestling with their own invisible storms. As Jamal navigates this suspended world, at once suffocating and strangely sacred, he begins to observe rather than retreat, finding in the rhythms of shared cigarettes, half-finished conversations and midnight confessions a hesitant, flickering sense of belonging. Within these intimate,
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