SuitabookFree will and circumstance
Esso and Rhia try to change a future shaped by violence, while the story considers whether people’s situations result from decisions, social conditions or both.
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Femi Fadugba - Author
A tense, science-rich story combines South London settings, two connected teenage lives and an urgent attempt to prevent tragedy. It offers momentum alongside questions about whether circumstances, choices or both shape a person’s future.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA tense, science-rich story combines South London settings, two connected teenage lives and an urgent attempt to prevent tragedy. It offers momentum alongside questions about whether circumstances, choices or both shape a person’s future.
Esso and Rhia try to change a future shaped by violence, while the story considers whether people’s situations result from decisions, social conditions or both.
The characters confront the possibility or consequences of lives being cut short, while trying to prevent a tragedy affecting people they love.
Time travel and a metaphysical realm are linked to physics, with diagrams, explanations and equations supporting the plot.
Before reading, consider whether a story involving gang conflict, a shooting, threatened deaths, grief and foster care feels manageable.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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