'THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is a spellbinding tale of family secrets and how the influence of past generations impacts on the present. Eze expertly weaves together the elements that show how, over the course of a century, a family can break apart and heal. An excellent debut' Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City‘Tochi Eze is a storyteller that the ancestors would be proud of. With masterful strokes, she knits together a beguiling story of history, tragedy, fa...

Brought to you by Penguin.‘Where are the fragments of the life you have lived?’2005In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories.In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she ca...

Lagos, 1960er Jahre: In einer Stadt voller Energie und Aufbruchsstimmung nach der Unabhängigkeit, lernt die selbstbewusste Margaret den in Großbritannien geborenen Benjamin kennen, der eine nigerianische Großmutter hatte und auf der Suche nach seinen Wurzeln ist. Sie verlieben sich und entdecken schon bald, dass sie mehr gemeinsam haben, als sie dachten. Aber dann wird Margaret psychisch immer labiler, und die Schatten jahrzehntealter Ereignisse in einem kleinen Dorf weit weg von Lagos bri...

A riveting tale of forbidden love centered on an estranged couple brought together to reckon with the mysterious events that splintered their family.In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father. Despite Margaret’s reluctance, their connection is immediate. They fall in love in the dense, humid city, examining what appears to be th...