{"id":4279,"date":"2025-12-18T17:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookertea.com\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2026-11-07T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T12:08:53","slug":"your-driver-is-waiting-priya-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookertea.com\/de\/2025\/your-driver-is-waiting-priya-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Driver Is Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>by Priya Guns (United Kingdom \/ Sri Lanka)<br>Paperback ISBN: 9781838955724<br>Pages: 320<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Damani is a rideshare driver in London, exhausted by work, financial pressure, and the quiet violence of everyday life. When she meets Jolene, a wealthy white woman who seems to offer attention, desire, and escape, Damani is drawn into a relationship shaped by power, class, race, and resentment. What begins as intimacy quickly becomes something darker and more volatile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast-paced, sharp, and unsettling,&nbsp;<em>Your Driver Is Waiting<\/em>&nbsp;is a debut novel that confronts contemporary inequalities without softening their edges. Priya Guns combines social satire with psychological intensity, creating a story that is both propulsive and deeply uncomfortable, asking how anger is formed, where it is directed, and who ultimately pays the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Priya Guns is a British writer and actor. She studied Creative Writing at Kingston University and has published short fiction and essays in outlets including&nbsp;<em>gal-dem<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Spring<\/em>. 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