TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ayobami Adebayo
TI  - SPELL OF GOOD THINGS
SN  - 9781838856052
U1  - F 
PY  - 2023////01/01
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Canongate
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Political corruption -- Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Nigeria Fiction
KW  - Poor Black people
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Social status
N1  - A spellbinding novel about family secrets and bonds, thwarted hope and the brutal realities of life in a society rife with inequality, from the Women's Prize shortlisted author
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

Ayobami Adebayo, the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future.Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends.When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola's lives become intertwined. In this breathtaking novel, Ayobami Adebayo shines her light on Nigeria, on the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between
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