For the avid reader and real Natasha Brown - fan (to be),
a very good, signed, limited / numbered 1st UK edition / 5th printing hardcover copy of
Natasha Brown
Assembly
Hamish Hamilton, London / UK, 2021
Your copy is number 451 or 452 (of 1000) of this "Foyles Fiction Book of the Year signed, exclusive edition". It is signed and numbered by Natasha Brown in black pen to a limitation page. It comes with an alternate cover (gold foil detail).
Both copies sustained really minor transport damage to the dust jacket only.
The books themselves are like new (all documented in the photos, nothing else)!
The listed price is for one (1) copy!
Observer Best Books of 2021, Guardian Books of the Year, The i paper Books of the Year, New Statesman Book of the Year, Bad Form Book of the Year shortlist, Good Housekeeping Best Books of the Year, Goldsmiths Prize shortlist, Books Are My Bag Fiction Award shortlist, Foyles, Daunt Books, Ignota and Libraria 'Book of the Year' selection
"Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going.
The narrator of Assembly is
a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party
at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside.
At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of
herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't
escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?
Assembly
is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class,
safety and freedom, winners and losers. And it is about one woman daring
to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life." (penguin.co.uk)
"Natasha Brown has spent a decade working in financial services, after
studying Maths at Cambridge University. She developed Assembly after
receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category."
(penguin.co.uk)