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'Fresh  timeless ... a lively work of art' Observer 'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black
British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine
Evaristo 'Most dreams  as all dreamers know quite well  do have setbacks. Adah's dream was no
exception  for hers had many' They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at school in Nigeria  she
was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her husband  and is determined to succeed.
But her welcome from 1960's England - and the man she married - is a cold one. Providing for
her growing family  struggling to survive and negotiating everyday injustices along the way 
Adah still resolves that she will never give up her dream of becoming a writer. 'Bold  brave 
defiant ... its exploration of blackness  the white gaze  and the development of the main
character Adah's sense of self is extremely powerful' Gal-dem

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