Rosewater

Liv is a writer of Jamaican and Guyanese descent via South London. She's the founder and former CEO of the award-winning publication gal-dem. Liv tells stories with heart about the people and places that matter to her. Her work spans journalism, audio, TV and curatorial projects for which she's received various accolades, including LGBTQI+ Broadcaster of The Year and Rising Star at Wow. Her short story, 'The Sisters' was published in the critically-acclaimed HAG, a collection of forgotten folktales retold. She was a BBC writer in residence for 2021, in which she developed an original pilot for a queer conspiracy thriller. Liv is most at peace in Nature, and she now lives by the sea. Rosewater is her debut novel.

A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always been.

"Wonderfully fresh, zesty and sexy"
BERNARDINE EVARISTO author of Girl, Woman, Other

"A story that seeps into you the way warm sunshine does at the final edges of winter"
NICOLE DENNIS-BENN author of Here Comes the Sun

"Frank, sexy and so tender. Little's pen shines"
BOLU BABALOLA author of Love in Colour

"No book has captured the dialogue of millennial Black London so well . .

. This is a modern Black British love story that will become a future classic"
SYMEON BROWN author of Get Rich of Lie Trying

"Bold and beautiful . .

. [a] bracing contemporary voice"
MIKE JACKSON, JOHN LEGEND and TY STIKLORIUS

Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in South London. But, at just 28, she is also tired.

Though she spends her days writing tender poetry in her journal, her nights are spent working long hours for minimum wage at a neighbourhood gay bar.

The difficulty of being estranged from her family, struggle of being continually rejected from jobs, and fear of never making money doing what she loves, is too great. But Elsie is determined to keep the faith, for a little longer at least. Things will surely turn around.

They have to.

As she tries to breathe through the panic attacks, sleeping with her hot and spirited co-worker Bea isn't exactly straightforward and offers Elsie just another place to hide.

As Elsie tries to reconnect with her best friend Juliet, her fragile world spirals out of control. Can Elsie steady herself and not fall through the cracks?