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**The new novel by legendary Irish author Edna O'Brien, award-winning author of The Little Red Chairs starring on BBC Imagine in July 2019: who, in her ninth decade has produced her most searing, urgent fiction in this portrait of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram. **
Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram , the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria , through the forest and beyond; a place where her traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial.
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