TAKE MY HAND BY DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ

One book that will definitely draw you in and provoke your sense of moral outrage is Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Take My Hand. Based on ugly, real life events, the tale tells of a nurse at a family planning clinic in Alabama who, while championing women’s right to birth control meets two black girls, the Williams sisters, who she learns have been involuntarily sterilised. To her horror, she realises that the sisters’ predicament is part of a wider issue with poor black women.

Take My Hand (Penguin, €14.21) is out now.