Sweet Pea: A Novel
Kit de Waal’s tender story of love, loneliness and unexpected kindness follows one woman as she endures an unimaginable tragedy that alters the course of her life, discovering strength and forgiveness along the way.
“A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power and emotional complexity.” ―Bernardine Evaristo
A beautiful portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman’s life, transformed by extraordinary love.
When Paulette arrived in England as a young girl, she left behind a grandmother in St. Kitts who called her “Sweet Pea,” taught her to cook, and admonished her to avoid temptation and embrace love and forgiveness, in that order.
Now, Paulette’s twenty-nine and within reach of her dream: a wedding, a...























