Keeping the House

The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud; that's where we put the heroin . . . Ayla has a plan. There's a stash of heroin; just waiting to be imported. No one seems sure what to do with it; but Ayla's a gardener; and she knows. From secretive men's clubs to spotless living rooms; Keeping the House is an electrifying debut that lifts the lid on a covert world. But just as it offers a fresh take on the London drug trade and its machinery; it tells the story of three women in one house: a grandmother; a mother; and the daughter; each dealing with the intricacies and reverberations of community; migration and love.

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from north London. A London Writers Award-winner; her work has been published by Extra Teeth and Skin Deep and commissioned by places like Battersea Arts Centre and St Paul's Cathedral. An alumnus of Barbican Young Poets; she now creates digital art as part of Design Yourself - a collective based at the Barbican Centre - exploring what it means to be human when technology is changing everything. A producer and DJ; she is releasing an EP; Keeping the House; to accompany her debut novel of the same name.