She is editor of the first black British anthology of speculative fiction, due out in 2022 with Peepal Tree Press. Ross has taught creative writing for twenty years, at University College Dublin, Cardiff University and Roehampton University in London. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, the 2017 Come Let Us Sing Anyway was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and the OCM BOCAS Prize. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and her second novel, Orange Laughter, was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Leone Ross is a major new voice for Faber and the island of Popisho will carve a new space on the cultural map. Good novels stay with you long after you finish them, but with great works of fiction a little bit lodges somewhere within.
This One Sky Day is as rare and brilliant and fabulous as the imagined world it manifests. It’s about longing and addiction about the bad choices we make that we can change even at that final hour and about all the flavours of love. After all this time, I’m overjoyed to share it. When you write a book for fifteen years you can be forgiven for fearing it will never be published. A playful love story about the one that got away, it is a major work of fiction in conversation with Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Junot Díaz via the Harlem Renaissance and Anaïs Nin. Ross’s use of language is daring, her imagination uncontainable. It is hard to convey the beauty of Leone Ross’s writing, inflected with the rhythm of patois and an immersive sense of place in the landscape of Popisho.
This One Sky Day is a lightning bolt of a novel.
A sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, it is also a dazzling, funny and incisive disquisition on post-colonial politics. Publication is scheduled for 4 February 2021.įollowing two star-crossed lovers finding their way back to one another over a single day, This One Sky Day is set on a fictional Caribbean archipelago called Popisho. Louisa Joyner, Publishing Director, pre-empted world rights, all languages, from Niki Chang at The Good Literary Agency.
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