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An illustration of a 1970s living room interior with a vintage television, record player, and Phillips cassette recorder, setting the atmosphere for Letters to Kweku.
LETTERS TO KWEKU

SEPTEMBER 2026

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Placeholder book cover for Letters to Kweku by Joyce Efia Harmer, publishing 10 September 2026.

Letters To Kweku

2026

A beautiful and uplifting story of immigration, hope and anguish, based on true events .

Dear Kweku, I am still here, writing to you again from the Obroni land. Please, will you accept this cassette recording letter from me?

Published 10 September 2026

Stylized illustration of red and orange sugarcane stalks, thematic background for How Far We’ve Come.

A groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed debut novel of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip story exploring the legacy of slavery, selected as The Times Children's Book of the Week.

’Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.’

Hopeful and devastating, this powerful novel about equality, how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go, introduces an extraordinary new literary voice.

"Both hopeful and heartbreaking, this gripping book turns a searchlight on the changing faces of  injustice through time."

- THE GUARDIAN

"A brilliant idea and a powerful debut."

THE TIMES

Front cover of How Far We’ve Come by Joyce Efia Harmer, featuring a vibrant yellow background and a silhouette of a girl walking away from a plantation and chains.

How Far We've Come

2023

Illustration of a girl in historical dress from the novel 'How Far We've Come'.
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Contact

For media inquiries, contact Clare Wallace at Darley Anderson Children

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