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Author: Braithwaite, Oyinkan

Nigeria

Published on 26 September 2019 by ATLANTIC BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 240 pages
129 x 197 x 19 | 214g

Sunday Times bestseller and The Times #1 bestsellerA Between The Covers Book Club Pick 2023Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019Winner of the 2019 LA Times Award for Best Crime ThrillerCapital Crime Debut Author of the Year 2019’A literary sensation’Guardian’A bombshell of a book… Sharp, explosive, hilarious’ New York Times’Glittering and funny… A stiletto slipped between the ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart’ Financial TimesWhen Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what’s expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This’ll be the third boyfriend Ayoola’s dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede’s long been in love with him, and isn’t prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other…