EAN: 9781788167581

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Named one of the five best dark comedy novels of all time by Oyinkan Braithwaite Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Coming soon to Netflix 'Comic tragic topical and entertaining in equal measure' - Bernardine Evaristo To the dismay of her ambitious mother Bolanle marries into a polygamous family where she is the fourth wife of a rich rotund patriarch Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore considered a great prize in Nigeria but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. She only wants to escape to a quiet life but the others disapprove of the newest youngest cleverest addition to the family. Treated with respect by her husband she is viewed with suspicion by her seniors - who fear she may unlock their well-guarded secret. Through the voices of Baba Segi and his four wives Lola Shoneyin weaves a vibrant story of love secrets and a family like every other - happy and unhappy truthful and not sometimes kind sometimes competitive always bound by blood and the past.

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