Half of a Yellow Sun

THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION `WINNER OF WINNERS`CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB`S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2023`A literary masterpiece` - DAILY MAIL`An immense achievement` - OBSERVER`A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal` - TIMEIn 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer. And Richard, a shy Englishman, is in thrall to Olanna`s enigmatic twin sister. Amongst the horror of Nigeria`s civil war, loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined.Winner of the Women`s Prize for Fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie`s masterpiece is a novel about race, class and the end of colonialism – and the ways in which love can complicate everything.`Vividly written, thrumming with life … a remarkable novel` - Joyce Carol Oates`Adichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists` - Elle`Absolutely awesome. One of the best books I`ve ever read` - Judy Finnigan