Cette série captivante explore les préjugés raciaux et l'inégalité sociale dans une réalité alternative où s'affrontent deux sociétés très différentes. La séparation forcée et les préjugés profondément ancrés compliquent la vie des personnages qui s'efforcent de surmonter des barrières apparemment insurmontables. Les récits sont remplis de tension et d'émotion, suivant de courageux protagonistes qui osent défier le statu quo et lutter pour la justice. C'est une exploration intemporelle de l'amour, de la perte et du désir d'un monde meilleur.
Imaginez un monde. Un monde où tout est noir ou blanc. Où ce qui est noir est riche, puissant et dominant. Où ce qui est blanc est pauvre, opprimé et méprisé. Un monde où les communautés s'affrontent à coups de lois racistes et de bombes. C'est un monde où Callum et Sephy n'ont pas le droit de s'aimer. Car elle est noire et fille de ministre. Et lui blanc et fils d'un rebelle clandestin.
This thought-provoking and often provocative look at racism is a sequel to the award-winning Noughts & Crosses . Persephone (Sephy) Hadley, now an 18-year-old single parent, is raising her biracial daughter in a sharply divided alternate England, where black Crosses suppress the white Noughts. She faces pressure from both her less-than-understanding Cross family and her disintegrating Naught family, and everyone in between. When her brother-in-law's violent behavior leads to murder, Sephy provides a false alibi to save Jude, but doing so irreparably damages other lives.
Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned Noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows up she becomes determined to find out more about her parentage. As Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into her father’s world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into danger.
Just this once . . . Please let me get away with it just this once . . . Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? One small decision can change everything . . . The fourth novel in Malorie Blackman's powerful Noughts & Crosses sequence.
"Continues the story of forbidden love between noughts and crosses. Thirty-four years have elapsed since Sephy- a Cross got together with Callum - a nought. While life is now very different, past prejudices can come back to haunt