The Water Dancer

One sentence synopsis... Born into bondage but gifted with mystic abilities, Hiram Walker is reluctantly drawn deeper and deeper into an underground war between slavers and freedom fighters.

Read it if you liked... Toni Morrison, who wrote, “the stress of remembering, its inevitability, but the chances for liberation that lie within the process.” Coates seems to be taking that idea to its furthest point, imagining a world in which memory is the path to freedom. If you expect this novel to be like ‘Between the World and Me' you'll be disappointed but if you prefer Coates' more fantastical work on Black Panther this book is for you.

Dream casting... Logan Browning as the fiercely independent Sofia and Jessica Brown Findlay as the duplicitous Corrine Quinn.