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The Mercy Step

By: Marcia Hutchinson
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Shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Named one of the best New Novelists for 2025 by The Observer.

Bradford, December 1962.

A precocious Mercy makes her reluctant entrance into the world, torn from the warm embrace of her mother’s womb, to a chaotic household that seems to have no place for her. Her siblings do not understand her, her mother’s attention is given to the Church, and the entire family lives at the whims of her father’s quick temper.

Left to herself, Mercy finds solace in books, her imagination, and the quiet comfort of her faithful toy, Dolly. But escapism has its limits, and as the grip of family, faith and fear threatens to close in, Mercy learns she must act if she wants a different future; one where she is seen, heard, and her family set free.

The Mercy Step is a sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion, and her refusal to be broken.

©2025 Marcia Hutchinson (P)2025 Recorded Books African American Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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Do yourself a favor and listen to this book and then listen to it again.

Truly awe-inspiring

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This could have been dubbed Mercy in the Middle. Told from the perspective of Mercy the middle child in a first gen UK/ Jamaican family, it is as entertaining as it is startling. A captivating, one of a kind (truly) coming of age story. Hearing it read in the author’s voice was definitely a treat.

Brilliant story, brilliantly narrated

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Total fiction. Totally real. Great insight written out for others to acknowledge they, too, have been seen.

Inner voice speaking loud in lyrical prose

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Marcia Hutchinson did a masterful job taking the reader through the inner workings of Mercy’s mind. I want to adopt this child. I want to be this child. I want to hear more of Mercy‘s childhood. A truly incredible story! Five stars in every way!

The remarkable mind of a precocious child!

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Really enjoyed listening to this in an authentic Caribbean voice! So real and poignant. Mercy takes us on her 11 year journey in life with such veracity

The vivacity of the story

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