The Girl with the Louding Voice - Hardcover

Dare, Abi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1529359236 ISBN 13: 9781529359237

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2020

Synopsis

All you have are your words.

Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education.

As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni's life amounts to this: four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes in her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni...

As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, fourteen-year-old Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won't be silenced. She is determined to find her voice - in a whisper, in song, in broken English - until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.

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Review

A stunning novel - original, beautiful and powerful. I was utterly captivated by Adunni and her mesmerising louding voice. (Rosamund Lupton, Sunday Times bestselling author of Sister and The Quality of Silence)

A bold new storyteller . . . Abi Daré's fearless debut is a celebration of girls who dare to dream and those who help them unfurl their wings so that they might soar (Imbolo Mbue, New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers)

Adunni's voice weaves and dances its way across the pages with a rhythm that captivated me, astonished me and, more than once, broke my heart (Tara Conklin, author of The House Girl)

Heartbreaking and inspiring. Daré provides a valuable reminder of all the young women around the world who are struggling to be heard and how important it is that we listen to them. A moving story of what it means to fight for the right to live the life you choose. (Kirkus)

The Girl With the Louding Voice is a character for the ages. Adunni is a girl who narrates her own suffering with levity, who paints depth and texture and beauty into her Nigerian homeland, who tenderly cultivates her own humanity even while everything around her seeks to thwart it. She is an ambassador for girls everywhere. She is important, funny, brave, and enduring. Abi Daré has written an unforgettable novel, by the strength of her own louding voice. (Jeanine Cummins)

Book Description

Award-winning before it has even been published, Abi Daré's unforgettable debut sings from the page in a voice like no other.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1529359236
• ISBN 13: 9781529359237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320