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- ISBN 9781849434973
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 120g
- Dimensions: 136 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Nominated for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2014 and for Best New Play in the Off West End Theatre Awards
On holiday with her streetwise son in Lagos, a British-Nigerian mother is in turmoil. Should she leave her only child in a strict Lagos boarding school, or return him to the battlefields of inner London? A family spanning three generations and two continents meet in Lagos for the first time in over thirty years. But the joy of reunion unleashes long-suppressed truths.
Ade Solanke is a playwright, screenwriter and story analyst. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California. While in America, Ade worked as a story analyst at New Line Cinema, the Sundance Institute and the Mark Taper Forum in LA, as well as in the story department of Hollywood Pictures, Disney. As a freelance arts journalist, Ade has contributed to the Guardian, the New Statesman, West Africa Magazine, The Voice, Art Monthly and the Times Literary Supplement. An impressive writer across various forms, Solanke has been described by the Guardian as "breathtakingly candid…another strong female presence”
