Cursed Daughters
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD 2026: the bestselling twisty heartbreaker, from the author of My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Description de l’éditeur
CURSES ARE LIKE HEARTS. SOME ARE MORE EASILY BROKEN THAN OTHERS...
'A worthy successor to My Sister, the Serial Killer... Pacey storytelling, nuanced characterisation and sharp dialogue... An immersive page-turner' Sunday Times
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'A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance' Ayòbámi Adébáyò
'A sweeping love story... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages' Jennie Godfrey
'Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down' Abi Daré
No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now it's calm, rational Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her family's insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs.
Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?
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Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters...
'Everyone's going to fall in love with this book'
'A stunning read. Possibly my book of the year so far'
'One of the best endings of a book I've read in a long time. So satisfying'
'Sharp, brilliantly written...and broke my heart on more than one occasion'
'I cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored it'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this scintillating saga from Braithwaite (My Sister, the Serial Killer), generations of women in a Lagos family contend with a curse that prevents them from securing husbands. The nonlinear narrative begins in 2000 when 25-year-old Monife Falodun drowns herself after losing the love of her life, Kalu. Braithwaite then rewinds to unspool Monife and Kalu's passionate and ill-fated love story, eventually revealing how they were separated. Along the way, she interweaves Monife's story with that of Monife's niece Eniiyi, born on the day of Monife's funeral. Eniiyi looks so much like Monife that their family believes Eniiyi is Monife reincarnated. Indeed, the girl shares certain characteristics with her aunt, such as a desire for love and the hope to break their family's curse, which was placed on their ancestor Feranmi by the first wife of Feranmi's husband, who said, "No man will call your house, home." Eniiyi has recurring dreams of Monife by the sea where she drowned, but Monife never speaks in the dreams until after Eniiyi, now a recent college graduate, rescues a handsome boy named Zubby from drowning. Afterward, Monife turns to Eniiyi in a dream and mysteriously says, "Not again." As Eniiyi falls for Zubby, she discovers a connection between him and Monife's past. Braithwaite's use of magical realism is effortless and vivid, as when the dream version of Monife speaks to Eniiyi in Eniiyi's own voice. She also sustains the strange mystery of whether Eniiyi is in fact Monife, all while exploring the family's painful cycle of abandonment. This is riveting.
