James Nelson-Joyce

A small-time drug dealer in a working-class British town questions his life choices as the return of an old pal forces him to confront his past.

Jamaican immigrant, Hezekiah Moscow, finds himself thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. He meets Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants and runs afoul of Sugar Goodson, a notorious boxer and Wapping’s self-declared emperor. As the men lock horns, Mary draws them into her plans to secure her future and her crown.

With no immediate family to live for, Joseph is haunted by a past he has tried, for decades, to forget.