Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award 2023Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023Shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award 2023Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2023BELIEVE THE HYPE StellaA searing symphony of magic and loss love and hope Marlon JamesA mesmerising love story achingly tender Bolu BabalolaDarwin is a downonhisluck gravedigger newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets.Meanwhile in an old house on a hill where the city meets the rainforest Yejides mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide the power to talk to the dead.