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The Girl with the Louding Voice

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré

English editions

Written in English

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Adunni is fourteen and wants to go to school and give her family a better home in their small Nigerian village. Instead her father sells her as the third wife of an old man. After tragedy strikes in that household she escapes to the rich neighbourhoods of Lagos, where she works for a cruel mistress and is preyed on by the woman's husband, yet will not let herself be silenced.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Coming of age (assigned by AI)
Set in
Nigeria
First published
2020
ISBN

9781529359275 (Sceptre, United Kingdom)

9781524746025 (Dutton, United States)

9781524746094 (Dutton, United States)

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