• LOOK AT YOU published April 2025

    Peepal Tree Press

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  • Written with the empathy and rigorous, taut prose of Raymond Carver, this is a moving, sometimes shocking and sometimes funny account of a girl’s growing up in a divided family, moving between Trinidad and England.

  • Stylish, and empathetic, this arresting book tackles the complexities of identity and perception.

Amanda Smyth

Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of four novels, Black Rock, A Kind of Eden, Fortune, and Look at You published by Peepal Tree Press in February 2025.

Amanda Smyth is Irish Trinidadian, and author of three novels. Her first novel, Black Rock, won the…

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FORTUNE

Eddie Wade has recently returned from the US oilfields. He is determined to sink his own well and make his fortune in the 1920s Trinidad oil-rush. His sights are set on Sonny Chatterjee’s failing cocoa estate, Kushi, where the ground is so full of oil you can put a stick in the ground and see it bubble up.

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Shortlisted for Walter Scott Prize 2022

'A thrilling Shakespearean tragedy of a story, about love, lust, ambition, destiny, and human frailty.’

'A masterclass in narrative tension, in economy – every detail earns its place – and in the miraculous power of a writer to transport, Fortune is a cracking story told by a cracking story-teller.’

(Judges)

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Amanda is represented by Lucy Luck at Conville & Walsh Associates

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