GraniteRock by Alicia J Rouverol

In this stunning collection, women and girls grapple with socio-economic injustices: a ten-year-old American child witnesses coercion by the Corsican gendarme; deck hands spar in the West Indies; a woman finds community through climbing a granite rockface; and an émigré mother worries and awaits settlement under tightening immigration laws in contemporary Britain.

These complex and dynamic characters reveal how place shapes us, and the various ways we search for belonging in a world in flux.