Warona Jay The Grand Scheme of Things recensie, review en informatie van de in Botswana geboren, Engelse schrijfster. Op 25 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Washington Square Press de debuutroman van Warona Jay. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.
Warona Jay The Grand Scheme of Things recensie, review en informatie
- “Explosive from the first page, The Grand Scheme of Things gleefully lays bare the lengths artists will go to in order to achieve their dreams, as well as the hypocrisy of gatekeepers who espouse the myth of meritocracy. Never shying away from complexity while also giving readers much to delight in, Warona Jay makes an unforgettable entrance to the world of literature. Layered, hyperaware, and as entertaining as it is incendiary, Jay’s debut is a hit.” (Mateo Askaripour)
- “Sharply observed, The Grand Scheme of Things is an important book about bias, white privilege and gatekeeping in the theatre and publishing industry. The story is incredibly propulsive-I was kept guessing about whether Naledi and Hugo’s plan would succeed. Jay writes about intersectional identity and belonging with great compassion and precision. A brilliant story that exposes the myth of meritocracy.” (Haleh Agar)
The Grand Scheme of Things
- Auteur: Warona Jay (Botswana, Engeland)
- Soort boek: debuutroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Washington Square Press
- Verschijnt: 25 februari 2025
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 27,99 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Warona Jay
Two unlikely friends hatch an extraordinary scheme to expose the theater world in this wildly entertaining and sharply observed debut novel exploring perception, redemption, and how success shapes us all.
Meet Relebogile Naledi Mpho Moruakgomo. Or, for short, Eddie: an aspiring playwright who dreams of making it big in London’s theater world. But after repeated rejections from white talent agents, Eddie suspects her non-white sounding name might be the problem.
Enter Hugo Lawrence Smith: good looking, well-connected, charismatic and…very white. Stifled by his law degree and looking for a way out of the corporate world, he finds a kindred spirit in Eddie after a chance encounter at a cafe.
Together they devise a plan, one which will see Eddie’s play on stage and Hugo’s name in lights. They send out her script under his name and vow to keep the play’s origins a secret until it reaches critical levels of success. Then they can expose the theater world for its racism and hollow clout-chasing. But as their plan spins wildly out of control, Eddie and Hugo find themselves wondering if their reputations, and their friendship, can survive.
Warona Jay was born in Botswana and raised in the West-Midlands in England. She studied law at the University of Kent and King’s College London before switching to a creative writing PhD at Brunel. As a teen, she was shortlisted for the Sony Young Movellist of the Year Award judged by Malorie Blackman, and more recently, in 2020 she was longlisted for Penguin Random House’s WriteNow program. The Grand Scheme of Things is her debut novel.