In the wake of a political scandal that shatters her high-flying career, journalist Dolly Fontaine seeks refuge at her childhood home, Genevrier, where her mysterious mother, celebrated seventies film star, Gloria Fontaine, lived for decades. When Dolly discovers a dusty box of cassette tapes in the attic revealing Gloria's most compelling, real-life role-a daring undercover mission as a British spy to her birth country of Lusenka-so begins a perilous journey involving diamonds, Cold War intrigue, and a merciless dictator. Can Gloria's voice recordings, and an enigmatic, retired spook once known as Sunstar, help Dolly uncover the truth before a deadly adversary silences her forever? Oh, Sugar spans two generations, taking the reader from 21st-century Cornwall to a fictional West African dictatorship at the height of the 1970s oil crisis.

Jane Labous is an award-winning journalist and author of two novels, Past Participle (Afsana Press, 2023) and The Chameleon Girl (Farafina Books, 2022), known for her frontline coverage of human rights and gender issues, always telling the powerful human stories behind the social, humanitarian and political headlines. She has worked for worldwide news outlets including the BBC - with regular slots on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent -and humanitarian agencies including the UN, the World Health Organisation and Amnesty International. She has won many awards over the years, including from BBC Radio 4, the Royal Geographical Society, and the European Journalism Centre. Her fiction has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Prize and the Santa Fe Writers' Project Literary Award. Jane lives in Dorset with her daughter, who is British-Senegalese. www.janelabous.com