Join bestselling author of My Sister the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite as she discusses her new novel Cursed Daughters – another deliciously dark masterpiece, as a young woman must find out whether she can escape a gloomy family curse which states that the person she loves will end up dead.
Book signing to follow.
Oyinkan Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. She has had short stories published in anthologies and has also self published work. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top ten spoken word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
Her debut novel was originally published in Nigeria as an e-book with the title Thicker Than Water in 2017 before being released as My Sister the Serial Killer in 2018. It became a Sunday Times bestseller, The Times #1 bestseller, was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019, a Between The Covers Book Club Pick 2023, and a Capital Crime Debut Author of the Year 2019. Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of modernity and superstition, vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation. With its unforgettable cast of characters, it asks us what it means to be given a second chance and how to live both wisely and well with what we’ve been given.
