In the Ditch

''Sad, sonorous, occasionally hilarious, an extraordinary first novel'' Washington Post

''Striking . . . brings sexism and classism into equal focus'' The Paris Review

Adah is a single mother of five, living in a dank, crumbling housing estate for ''problem families'', avoiding the rats and rubbish. It''s not quite the new start in London she had planned. As she navigates the complicated welfare sys...