I'm looking forward to reading more of Sarah Smith's work!. It's based on a landmark case and brings the period to life incredibly well, I felt I was walking the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow alongside the characters! The writing is even-handed yet moving, telling the tale of young Jean Campbell who is arrested for being seen throwing her baby in the River Clyde. I've not read many novels which describe this experience and in particular, none set in historical times and found this aspect of Hear No Evil particularly fresh and intriguing. I found the rendering of the deaf experience - the history of sign language and the social attitudes of the time - particularly interesting. I've not read many nove This is such a fascinating and evocative novel, set in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1817. This is such a fascinating and evocative novel, set in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1817.
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She also once ran away to join a circus in New York, but that’s a story for another time…. She has always been an avid reader, but rekindled her early love of writing in 2015 while doing a short online course. Before publication, Kololo Hill won The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live, was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award and First Novel Prize and was longlisted for various other writing awards.Īfter studying law at university, Neema built a career in marketing, specialising in TV, digital and brand strategy for companies including the BBC. Kololo Hill is inspired by their lives, as well as those who were expelled from Uganda by brutal ruler Idi Amin. Her grandparents left India for East Africa in the 1940s. She has always been an avid reader, but rekindled her early love of writing in 2015 Neema Shah's novel Kololo Hill was chosen as a 2021 Pick for Foyles, The Daily Mail, The Irish Times and Cosmopolitan. After studying law at university, Neema built a career in marketing, specialising in TV, digital and brand strategy for companies including the BBC. Before publication, Kololo Hill won The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live, was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award and First Novel Prize and was longlisted for various other writing awards. Neema Shah's novel Kololo Hill was chosen as a 2021 Pick for Foyles, The Daily Mail, The Irish Times and Cosmopolitan.
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