Following a thirty-one-year-old South-Londoner with a mother and an army of aunties way too concerned about her matrimonial prospects, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn’s uplifting debut weaves a hilarious and irresistibly witty narrative about love, family and self-acceptance.
The hotly anticipated debut of 2022 with a heroine to fall in love with.
The Nigerian accent Dictionary
Huzband (pronounced auz-band) noun
1. A male partner in a marriage
E.g. Yinka's younger sister, Kemi, is married to Uche
2. A non-existent man in a non-existent marriage whose whereabouts is often questioned, usually by Nigerian mums and aunties to single British Nigerian women
E.g. So, Yinka. Tell me. Where is your huzband? Ah, ah. You're thirty-one now!
Yinka wants to find love. The problem is she also has a mum who thinks she's better qualified to find it for her.
She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, a preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that she's a thirty-one-year-old South-Londoner who doesn't believe in sex before marriage is a bit of an obstacle too...
When her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find A Date for Rachel's Wedding. Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs is to find herself?
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241504598
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 629 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 36 mm
Warm and fun and sweet, great on female friendships and extended families - Marian Keyes
Such a warm, funny and relatable book - Jendella Benson
You'll fall in love with Yinka in this witty and heartwarming romantic comedy - Red
We follow Yinka’s search for a plus-one when her cousin Rachel announce she is getting married. That gives Yinka about six months to find a boyfriend or husband candidate.
Yinka is an educated overachiever who works...
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I loved Yinka.
I knew I would as the Nigerian heritage mixed with London Millenials was a fusion of colour, noise & the smell of food.
The Aunties are loud, Yinka's mother louder, the church scenes were just...
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I really loved this book. I like the way our cultures collide and finding out how families deal with differences on how we are brought up especially people from ethnic backgrounds thrown together and making the most... More
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