Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer
• Summer reading: 50 new books to dive into
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair is a very literary and lushly written memoir about growing up with a Rastafarian father in Jamaica who imposed his tyrannical will on his children, especially his daughters, to such an extent that it was suffocating and psychologically damaging. Eventually Sinclair escapes his grip and finds freedom and self-determination in the US, where she becomes a writer, initially a poet. Shockingly honest and brave, but also beautifully immersive and ultimately uplifting, this is a stunning book.
