Unbridled

Ngozi grows up in a Nigerian village, where she suffers physical and psychological abuse, not least from her own father. Her escape takes her first to Lagos and then to London, where she lives as Erika. The London she finds is not the city of emigrants' dreams but one of slums, and of men as brutal as those she left behind. Telling her own story in flashbacks, she connects her battered childhood with her life on the margins of Black Britain, and slowly comes to see how deeply the abuse has shaped her as she fights for a purposeful life and a place in the country.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Nigeria, United Kingdom

First published

2007 by Blacksands Books

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9781770095267 (Jacana Media, South Africa)

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