After a successful career as a social worker and psycho-therapist, Yvonne Bailey-Smith has followed her award-winning daughter Zadie into writing.

The first part of The Day I Fell Off My Island (Myriad Editions, £8.99; Tablet price £8.09) is narrated in Jamaican patois. Brought up by her beloved grandparents, 14-year-old Erna is dismayed to have to move to England in 1969 to be reunited with her younger siblings, a mother she barely knows and a stepfather she hates.

Bailey-Smith packs several themes into this absorbing novel – from domestic and sexual abuse to migration and racism.