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Goldsboro Books

978-1472289643

Dazzling

Dazzling

by Chikodili Emelumadu

Publisher Wildfire

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About the book

'I am truly dazzled' TRACY CHEVALIER

'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?

'Unexpected, explosive and deeply satisfying' MELISSA FU

'A masterful storm' DOREEN CUNNINGHAM

'Uncanny and affecting in equal measure' T. L. HUCHU

'One hell of a book' MEG CLOTHIER

About the Author

Chikodili Emelumadu

Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and raised in Awka, Nigeria. A product of not one but two Nigerian boarding schools, she went on to attend Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her work has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award (2015), a Nommo Award (2020), and the Caine Prize for African Literature (2017, 2020), and Dazzling won the inaugural Curtis Brown First Novel Prize for a work in progress. She lives in Newhaven, East Sussex, England.

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