• Text size
  • Send this article to a friend
  • Print this article

Precious Williams: Precious (Bloomsbury, £14.99)

Families and cultures clash in a book that avoids becoming a misery memoir.

One September day in 1971, a “sinewy”, “elegantly disinterested” Nigerian woman named Elizabeth came to the door of an unremarkable house in the town of Fernmere, near Bognor.