Tag: Fiction
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Yejide is struggling to conceive a child. Her husband, Akin has even given into to the pressure of relatives to urge he take on a second wife who can carry his baby. Catapulting between hope and heartbreak, Yejide goes to lengths she wouldn’t imagine and along the way, she discovers secrets about her marriage. Secrets…
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Hey there, bookworm! I’m finally back with an exciting new book review, the first one of 2024. Woohoo! This year we’ve started off strong with Daphne Du Maurier’s, Rebecca. (This was actually on my 2023 to-read list, but better late than never, right?). All I can say is wow. It’s been so long since I’ve…
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I can’t believe how much emotion and depth can be compressed in just 160 pages. McEwan is my literary hero. The way he finds the perfect balance between simplistic and intensive imagery. The way he bends, stretches and uses time in all its facets. What did the end of WW2 mean for two young British…
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini unveils a world so overlooked in this age of western hegomony. Walking past a woman in a burqa, for me was once a glimpse of two anonymous eyes. Now I see a life and wonder many things of it. I’ve been transported to a world where a woman’s…
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Hey book-friends! So here’s a question that’s been playing on my mind. Why is it that most adults struggle reading fiction? Humour me and try this, go up and ask a random person over 25 what their favourite book is and 8/10 times you’ll hear something by the likes of Mark Manson, Roberte Greene or…
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If you want to stay up all night, then The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell is a must-read! Here are my thoughts of this emotional rollercoaster. Synopsis Everybody loves Maya, Adrian Wolfe’s third wife. The family holidays, the kids’ gestures of approval, the weekend-parenting shifts all showed a smooth-sailing ship on the sea of Adrian’s…
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Elif Shafak is hands down one of my heroes. I mean where do I begin? She’s a politics scholar and a brilliant public speaker, she is chosen among BBC’s top 100 influential woman, she’s the vice president of the Royal Society of Literature, the founding member of the European Council of Foreign Relations and now…