True Murder by Yaba Badoe
Eleven year old Ajuba has been abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanaian father. Haunted by the circumstances of her mother's breakdown, Ajuba falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus, and her chaotic, glamorous family. As the passionate bond between the two girls deepens, they discover what they think are the bones of dead kittens, hidden in the attic of the Venus home; but the bones are human. The girls set out to unravel the mystery but as the summer draws to a close, three tragedies conflate, with catastrophic results.
The intimacy and uncertainty of adolescence is strongly evoked * Guardian *
Commanding.. Few readers will not identify with its out-of-depth heroine * Independent *
Spookily menacing * Marie Claire *
The novel surges with raw emotion: guilt, love, betrayal, loss - and treachery * Daily Mail *
An action-packed chiller steeped in the passions and potential darkness of childhood -- Melissa Katsoulis * Sunday Telegraph *
Commanding.. Few readers will not identify with its out-of-depth heroine * Independent *
Spookily menacing * Marie Claire *
The novel surges with raw emotion: guilt, love, betrayal, loss - and treachery * Daily Mail *
An action-packed chiller steeped in the passions and potential darkness of childhood -- Melissa Katsoulis * Sunday Telegraph *
Yaba Badoe is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker and journalist. A graduate of King's College Cambridge, she worked as a civil servant in Ghana before becoming a General Trainee with the BBC. She has taught in Spain and Jamaica and is, at present, a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, where she is completing a documentary film -The Witches of Gambaga. Her short stories have been published in Critical Quarterly and in African Love Stories: an anthology edited by Ama Ata Aidoo.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099523321 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099523329 |
| Titre | True Murder |
| Auteur | Yaba Badoe |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Vintage Publishing |
| Année de publication | 2009-08-06 |
| Nombre de pages | 272 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |