I’ve read some great book this month and was quite torn between two: Abi Daré’s And So I Roar and Nikki May’s This Motherless Land. And So I Roar is the sequel to Daré’s award-winning story The Girls with the Louding Voice. May’s text just had the edge in readability and story-telling.
Tragic circumstances bring two cousins together. They become the best of friends and then the worst of enemies.
May’s characters are so well drawn and we get wonderful feelings of times and place as the narrative shifts between modern Nigeria and a faded genteel English countryside.
There are the twists and turns, coincidences and questions about identify we welcome in popular fiction and the fine writing we love in literary fiction.
I saw both Daré
and May at a Manchester Literature Festival event. It was such an interesting
evening and I returned home with two hefty hardbacks. Well worth the effort however.
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