Searching for the Remarkable in Things is a YA novel written by up and coming author. Natalie Lucy.  Set in two time frames, one present day England and the other in Georgia 1851, the novel traces the impact of the legacy of slavery across the generations. “Mary, Georgia, 1851 My Momma always told me that, one day, remarkable things would happen to me.‘No, Mary,’ I hear her say, voice dripping like treacle, ‘not happen to you; you will do remarkable things.’ Not now though, trapped and with no room to properly breathe – nowhere to look even but the sky above...