In 1960's Nigeria, the lives of three disparate people intersect: Ugwu, houseboy to a university lecturer, Olanna, who has abandoned her privileged family to live with the professor, and Englishman Richard in thrall to Olanna's twin. Embroiled in the horrors of civil war, pulled apart and thrown together in unimaginable ways, their allegiances are cruelly tested. Definitely not a book for bedtime, but its lucid prose will make you want to keep the pages turning.
*Winner 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
(Jenny Baker - bwl 40 June 2007 ) |
