Dazzling

A bewitching and immersive Nigerian magic realist novel from an extraordinary literary voice, for fans of Chigozie Obioma, Abi Dare and Deepa Anappara ´I am truly dazzled´ TRACY CHEVALIER ´A rich tapestry of African mythology and magic´ CHERIE JONES ´Bursting with magic, bright and visceral´ JENNIFER SAINT ´A feast of shimmering, beautiful prose´ CHIKA UNIGWE Soon you will become the thing all other beasts fear. Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure´s daddy died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a spirit who promises to bring her father back - but she has to do something for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back that can´t be scratched. An itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny, to defend her people by becoming a leopard. Her father impressed upon her what an honour this was before he vanished, but it´s one she couldn´t want less. But as the two girls reckon with their burgeoning wildness and the legacy of their fathers´ decisions, Ozoemena´s fellow students at her new boarding school start to vanish. Treasure and Ozoemena will face terrible choices as each must ask herself: in a world that always says ´no´ to women, what must two young girls sacrifice to get what is theirs?