Beverley Naidoo

Twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi have to flee Nigeria when their mother is killed and their father won't stop criticizing the military rulers. The woman paid to bring them to London as her children abandons them and they are alone in a new, often hostile, environment.

The Mau Mau secret society struck terror into the British settlers in Kenya. It was an episode in history that would leave a nation brutally divided. Against this backdrop unfolds the personal story of two boys, one black, one white, who find that, in a country riven with fear and prejudice, even best friends can betray one another.