WINNER of the 2021 Society of Authors' Betty Trask Award.
LONGLISTED for the 2020 Not the Booker Prize.
A young woman living in London, Ekuah loves deeply and loves hard, yet
with each romantic encounter she is left feeling increasingly unmoored
and adrift. She struggles in her love for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician,
who is both passionate and distant in the way he loves her back.
Confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their
relationship, he suddenly disappears from her life. Heartbroken, she is
left to pick up the pieces, while searching for new validations and
preoccupations from others.
But when, against a backdrop of enigmatic, poetic, nights in London,
Venice, Accra and Paris, she finds an unexpected new love in the form of
Jay Stanley, Ekuah re-focuses on her journey to meaningful love. She is
determined to feel deeply again, but can she handle the vulnerability
and forgiveness that comes with falling in love?