"Meet Yinka: a 30-something, Oxford educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her girlfriends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her sister thinks she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life...well, that's a whole other story. But...

"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...

Ésta es una novela de dos mujeres supervivientes. Una joven refugiada nigeriana que no tiene nada y una brillante periodista inglesa que aparentemente lo tiene todo. Sus vidas colisionan un fatídico día en Nigeria, y una de ellas tiene que tomar una terrible decisión, el tipo de decisión que uno espera no tener que tomar nunca. Dos años después, se reencuentran en Inglaterra, y ahí empieza esta historia."-- Dust jacket. A haunting novel about...