The Recovery House

'What a beautiful book, it’s like a hug, or a gentle holding of a hand' MICHAELA COEL 'The Recovery House is a work of the soul. It's some of the most earnest, beautiful writing I've come across in years.' JO HAMYA 'So rich, emotional and wise, distilling it all into a finely textured work of tenderness, love, camaraderie and human resilience.' COURTTIA NEWLAND 'I was deeply moved... each vignette feels like a small gift, told in a voice that will linger with me' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH **'**There are writers who both survive things and understand them. Brutal, precise, and somehow full of light.' YRSA DALEY-WARD 'I loved this beautiful book' SARAH BERNSTEIN 'A compelling and deeply engaging read' DANIEL LAWRENCE TAYLOR 'I loved it’ KRYSTELLE BAMFORD 'The Recovery House is a masterclass in storytelling. I was mesmerised from start to finish… I’ve never read anything like it and I don’t think I ever will. The Recovery House is perfect' ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS 'A prescient novel, which captures very powerfully the surreal space and mundane routines of an institution. Owusu has drawn that desolate situation so poignantly' SARA BAUME 'An impressively vulnerable novel - I read it in one sitting and immediately went back to page one to read it again' VARAIDZO 'Derek Owusu is the real deal, and The Recovery House is his best work yet' KEIRAN GODDARD 'The Recovery House is brimming with tenderness' ROZIE KELLY A Granta Best Young British Novelist Jamal, a gifted and introspective young poet, wakes in a quiet, claustrophobic recovery house after a devastating mental breakdown, unsure how the bright edges of his life became so fractured. In this stark yet strangely tender sanctuary, with its watchful nurses, restless corridors and overlooked garden, he encounters several wounded, but radiant souls who are each wrestling with their own invisible storms.