KIDS’ BOOK OF THE WEEK

THE UPPER WORLD

by Femi Fadugba, Penguin

£7.99 (ebook £4.99).

★★★✩✩

Esso and 15-year-old orphan Rhia are two teenagers a generation apart, but a fatal bullet ties their paths together.

If Rhia can believe in the concept of time travel, it could be key to changing events of the past. This compelling thriller is set on the streets of South East London, a place author

Femi Fadugba knows very well. It is a bit of a slow burner and at times it can feel like you need to grasp the physics behind the idea of time travel to fully understand the plot, but once Esso and Rhia’s stories start to unfold, this book is impossible to put down. One to read before it’s adapted into a Netflix film starring Daniel Kaluuya.