"I go half way round the world and back thinking Id made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies."

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Alvin and Errol cant picture much of a future for themselves. Theyre young, Black and living in England in the 1980s, with an entire country and political system set against them. Instead they focus firmly on their past the sunny Caribbean and heroic father they left behind when their mother brought them to England twenty years ago.

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But when Alvin returns home from his grandfathers funeral a new version of their past emerges, and the two brothers are caught in a desperate struggle to unearth the truth about their existence.

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Powerful and compelling, Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize) is the story of a family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no mans land that can come between parents and their children.