Narrative theme: Social issues

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Bigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago s slums, reckless, angry and adrift.

The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war.

In school playgrounds across the country parents huddle in worried packs, desperately putting together their final plans to survive the summer weeks of mayhem - school is officially out!

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Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend's message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture, looking forward to reconnecting with family and old friends.

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In 1980s London, Black political leaders who can straddle the racial divide are a rarity.

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Same desk, different days.

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Lucy learns that life is both kind and cruel as she settles into her new South London home.

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