Mandy Beaumont’s 2022 debut novel, The Furies, is a powerful account of a young woman, maltreated from childhood, who decides she has had enough. Cynthia becomes a “woman about to start a mighty war”.
In Uchenna Awoke’s debut novel, The Liquid Eye of a Moon, 15-year-old Dimkpa, his parents’ first-born son, yearns to pull himself out of his family’s poverty and shame in his small Nigerian village.