The Woman Next Door
Author(s): Yewande Omotoso
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility which they prune with a zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. And gradually the bickering and sniping softens into lively debate, and from there into memories shared. But could these sparks of connection ever transform into friendship? Or is it too late to expect these two to change?
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Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist 2017
"It made me howl with laughter and it made me cry" -- Biyi Bandele, author of Burma Boy and director of Half of a Yellow Sun
Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria, moving to South Africa with her family in 1992. She is the author of Bom Boy, published in South Africa in 2011. In 2012 she won the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author and was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist in the the inaugural, pan-African Etisalat Fiction Prize. She lives in Johannesburg, where she writes and has her own architectural practice.
General Fields
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- : Vintage Publishing
- : Chatto Windus
- : 0.308
- : April 2016
- : 216mm X 135mm X 20mm
- : United Kingdom
- : June 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Yewande Omotoso
- : Paperback
- : 716
- : English
- : 813
- : 288