This emotional story centres on family pressures, secrets, grief, betrayals and shock revelations. Based around a culture that I’m not completely familiar with and set against a backdrop of political unrest, I really enjoyed this story which kept me turning pages and guessing throughout.

One small point that I would like to make is that the author tries to bring into the story, the political unrest of Nigeria, but I felt that this came across as a little disjointed and didn’t go deep enough to really link with the main story. That said, this was an extremely great debut and I very much look forward to reading more books by this author in the future.

I chose to read this NetGalley ARC for which I have given a voluntary and unbiased review.

A gripping tale of a marriage in conflict against the background of a country in conflict. For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun but sadly just like Homegoing it suffers from a weak end. The writing is fantastic and apart from the end I loved it.

I think this author has potential. I liked the fact that the story was told from different viewpoints but I think it would have helped to indicate the narrator in the chapter heading as I found several times to have gotten the narrator wrong partway through chapters, which was frustrating. Lots of surprising twists and turns. I like reading African books because the authors tend to describe the sights, sounds, and smells but somehow this was missing here. Nonetheless a promising debut and I shall be looking out for more.