Longlisted for the Girls’s Prize for Fiction 2024, Pam Williams’s A Hint of Solar was printed by Legend Press in March 2024. Louise Hare (writer of This Beautiful Metropolis and Miss Aldridge Regrets) calls the novel “An unflinching have a look at one household’s expertise of immigration, exploring psychological well being, identification and household.”
Description: ‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered phrases crammed her ears, despatched frissons of guilt by way of her as she bent over him; held him to her thumping chest. Tears sliding from her face to his.’
Raef is left behind in Grenada when his mom, Cilla, follows her husband to England in the hunt for a greater life. When they’re lastly reunited seven years later, they’re strangers – and the emotional influence of the separation results in occasions that rip their household aside. As they attempt to transfer ahead with their lives, his mom’s secret will make Raef query all he’s ever identified of who he’s.
A Hint of Solar is, partially, impressed by the writer’s family experiences.
Pam Williams: A Londoner of Grenadian heritage, Pam graduated from St Martin’s Faculty of Artwork in 1984 with a level in Trend and spent the following 20 years working within the business as a journalist, Trend Editor (at She, PS, Form and Now magazines) and freelance stylist.
While she’s at present a instructor at a particular wants faculty, writing continues to be a relentless in Pam’s life. She joined the Afrikan Heritage Writers group in 2014 and contributed poetry and prose items (which she performs) to the collective’s anthology 100 Years Unheard – WW1 and the Afrikan Diasporan Lady (2018).
Pam’s extremely recommended brief story “Soul Speaking” was printed within the Metropolis of Tales (2017) compilation from Unfold the Phrase; and she or he is an alumnus of the author growth company’s London Writers Award (2019). She received the BlackInk New Writing Prize 2022 for her brief story “Hibiscus.”
Pam’s work has the black expertise at its coronary heart with a concentrate on the significance of household and the necessity to belong – though all the time in distinctive methods. [. . .]
For extra on Pam Williams, see https://www.northbanktalent.com/shoppers/fiction-drama/pam-williams/
A Hint of Solar
Pam Williams
Legend Press, March 2024
302 pages
ISBN 978-1915643353 (pb)
For extra data, see https://www.legendpress.co.uk/a-trace-of-sun and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hint-Solar-extraordinary-exploring-separation/dp/191564335X
Many because of Peter Jordens for added materials; see interviews at:
https://womensprize.com/in-conversation-with-pam-williams and https://www.voice-online.co.uk/leisure/2024/03/06/pam-williams-pens-a-trace-of-sun