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The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson #foliosociety The day Jessica Hamel-Akré discoveredLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARD DISCOVER PRIZE A sharply witted and tender portrait of a young girl's quiet rebellion and her refusal to be brokenSet in 1960s Bradford, The Mercy Step follows Mercy, a precocious young child facing a world far too big for her small body. She lives with her Windrush generation parents in a crowded household where her mother's attention is stretched between church