The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson review – indie debut on the Women’s prize shortlist In the aftermath of the Windrush scandal, which exposed the cruel treatment of Commonwealth migrants invited to Britain in the post war era, a new generation of writers is drawing on their families' experiences.
Marcia Hutchinson's debut novel, The Mercy Step, offers a vivid and unflinching portrayal of childhood in 1960s Bradford.
The city was once a thriving industrial hub but had begun to decline by the time Hutchinson arrived as a child in late 1962.