«I read and admired all her books ... The book I adored most was The Joys of Motherhood, for its sparkling intelligence and a certain kind of honest, lived, intimate insight into working-class colonial Nigeria»

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

«A scorching portrayal of a woman's life in pre-independence Nigeria . . . should be up there as the female, feminist counterpart to Chinua Achebe's celebrated and widely taught novel Things Fall Apart»

Bernardine Evaristo

«A rich, multilayered work of fiction, full of drama and written with deceptive simplicity»

Essence

«Writes with subtlety, power, and abundant compassion»

New York Times

«Fresh and relevant . . . expertly and sensitively shines a light on the distortion of traditional values»

Lola Jaye, Lit Hub