The brilliant second novel from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She's Black\n\nfollows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in\nStockholm.\nYasmiin cannot comprehend what the policeman is saying to her. Her friend in a coma?\nAttempted suicide? Discovering she’s listed as next of kin, Yasmiin looks to her friend’s\npast to try and understand her actions, uncovering fresh mysteries at every turn. All the\nwhile, her own life seems to be running off course…\nKemi seems to have it all: a high-powered job, a beautiful flat, a loving boyfriend. So why\ndoesn't she feel more settled? Unsure whether its homesickness, heartsickness or\nsick-and-tired-of-the-same-old-sickness, she embarks on a destructive path to try and\nchange things up…\nBrittany-Rae doesn’t remember the woman she was before she met her husband\nJonny. She knows she was an ambitious, confident gogetter, but now she’s faded into\nJonny’s domineering shadow. And as she unearths disturbing secrets about her\nhusband, she’s focused on only one thing: her daughter, Maya, and ensuring she is as\nfar away from Jonny as possible…\nThe three women’s lives begin to overlap in the most unexpected of circumstances.\nIs it possible that the answer to their problems – though it seems impossible – lie in\none another’s hands?
Nigerian-American and based in Sweden, Lol? ?k?nm?d? ?kerstr?m is an awardwinning author, speaker, and photographer. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, BBC, CNN, Guardian, Sunday Times Travel, Daily Telegraph, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Travel Channel, Adventure Magazine, Lonely Planet, amongst others. In addition to contributing to several books, she is the author of the following books: 2018 Lowell Thomas Award winner for best travel book Due North and bestselling LAGOM: Swedish Secret of Living Well, available in 18 foreign language editions.
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