“Winner of the Costa Award 2021.” One of the most anticipated books of the year according to the Guardian, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue and other publications. They met in a bar. Both Londoners, both private school graduates, both black. He is a photographer, she is a dancer. When they met, they felt as if they had known each other all their lives. But can two people find solace in love in a world that they have to fight to belong to every day? “Into the Pool” is a beautiful, laconic, musical novel about the fact that not all stories have a happy ending, but this is by no means does not make them any less significant. “A tender, touching, fantastically written love story.” – Observer, Best Debut of 2021 “A beautiful and powerful novel about the sometimes painful depths of true love.” – Candice-Carty Williams