‘A perfect staycation read’ Guardian‘Funny, dark and brilliantly written… should be top of your TBR’ Stylist Magazine‘Extraordinarily excellent’ Daily Mail‘A completely addictive read that is laugh-out-loud funny’ Heat MagazineSet in Trinidad, and told with wry humour and irresistible wit, ONE YEAR OF UGLY is a story of family, first love, and finding home.When their beloved Aunt Celia dies, Yola and her family discover she had been keeping a huge secret – she was seriously in debt to local criminal, Ugly, and they must do his bidding until the debt is cleared..So far, so ugly.And then Ugly’s distracting gorgeous right-hand man Román arrives on the scene, and Yola just can't help herself. Could this wildly inappropriate (and very messy) romance be the perfect antidote?