This Kind of Trouble
A Novel
A riveting, emotionally-charged debut novel of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades earlier.
In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound Independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his ancestral roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father. Their connection is immediate, but as the two begin to fall in love, they discover that their pasts are more interwoven than they imagined due to a series of devastating events that transpired in their ancestral community. The shadow of these events, combined with Margaret’s deteriorating mental health, eventually tears them apart.
By 2005, the couple have been estranged for forty years.…