Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist. His 2007 novel, The Truth About These Strange Times, won a Betty Trask Award and earned him the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His 2008 narrative poem, The Broken Word, from which this extract is taken, won the poetry prize in the Costa Book Awards. It is set during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s. When Tom returns to his family’s farm in Kenya in the vacation between school and university he is drawn into the spiral of violence that is engulfing the country.
(This extract is from ‘The Broken Word’, published by Jonathan Cape, and is reprinted here by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.)
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