Marcia Hutchinson

Marcia Hutchinson was born in Manningham, Bradford the seventh of nine children to Windrush era Jamaican parents. The first pupil from her school to go to Oxford she worked as a lawyer before returning to the North. She has taken inspiration from her childhood to write her debut solo novel The Mercy Step which is also set in Manningham and has been described by the Observer as “dark, humorous, and passionately captures the unique realities of the northern Black experience. Powerfully told from a child’s vantage point, the storytelling is imaginative and animated, yet piercing in all the right places.”