One of the year's most anticipated by Marie Claire Essence Debutiful & Goodreads A brilliant
debut by a British-Nigerian author?a heartfelt family drama that will delight book club readers
and fans of books like The Girl with the Louding Voice and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.
?Jendella Benson has drawn such a compelling world. The book and the characters stayed with me
long after I'd turned the final pages!? ?Candice Carty-Williams bestselling author of Queenie
Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden
death of her father only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence.
Her brother Victor is in jail and won't speak to her because she didn't come home for his
trial. Her older sister Faith once a busy career woman appears to have lost her independence
and ambition and is instead channeling her energies into holding together a perfect suburban
family. Worst of all their mother Celeste is headed toward a breakdown after the death of
her husband and the shame of her son's incarceration. Rather than returning to America Glory
decides to stay and try to bring them all together again. It's a tall order given that Glory's
life isn't exactly working out according to plan either and she's acutely aware that she's not
so sure who she is and what she wants. A chance reunion with a man she'd known in her teens?the
perceptive but elusive Julian?gives her the courage to start questioning why her respectable
but obsessively private Nigerian immigrant family is the way it is. But then Glory's
questioning unearths a massive secret that shatters the family's fragile peace?and she risks
losing everyone she deeply cares about in her pursuit of the truth and a reunited family.
Filled with unexpected but earned twists Hope and Glory balances moments of rich humor and
devastating profundity...deeply authentic. ?Kirkus Reviews A sumptuous and satisfying
meditation on family and the meaning of home.? ?Publishers Weekly
