Rosewater by Liv Little review – a lyrical love affair | Fiction
Where is home? Do we ever really know where we belong? These are the questions that drive gal-dem founder Liv Little’s debut novel, Rosewater. At its centre is Elsie Macintosh, a gay 28-year-old poet of black Guyanese descent who left her parents’ house in Bristol after she tired of minding her twin brothers and settled down by herself in south London. The book opens on the morning Elsie is evicted from her flat.It’s a pleasure, too, to read the refreshingly original sex scenes that Little grounds in play, consent and…