Cursed Daughters
The CAPTIVATING bestselling page-turner, from the author of My Sister, the Serial Killer
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO AWARD 2026
An electric, utterly engrossing novel about mothers, daughters and unbreakable curses from the author of My Sister, the Serial Killer...
'Funny and fearless... Impossible to put down' Abi Daré
'I lost myself within its gorgeous pages' Jennie Godfrey
Your daughters are cursed. They will pursue men, but the men will be like water in their palms. Your granddaughters will love in vain. Your daughters, your daughter's daughters, and all the women to come will suffer for man's sake...
Eniiyi has heard about the family curse her whole life. She's never believed in it. She's also heard, her whole life, that she is the reincarnation of her dead aunt, Monife. Same eyes, same left hand, same scar in the same place. She's never believed in that, either.
Then she falls in love with a handsome local boy, and Monife begins to appear to Eniiyi: in her dreams, on the beach, in the mirror, pulling her, it seems, towards the same terrible fate. Can Eniiyi live her life on her own terms, or is history - and the curse - repeating itself?
Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters...
'ABSOLUTELY RIVETING!!'
'Will hook you from start to finish... I read in two days!'
'Oh my gosh this book is so good!'
'I cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored it'
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
“Your daughters are cursed—they will pursue men, but the men will be like water in their palms.” This is the hex placed generations ago on the Falodun family in Lagos, Nigeria, and the tantalising premise of Cursed Daughters, British-Nigerian author Oyinkan Braithwaite’s second novel. The curse has blighted its female members’ relationships ever since. But has it met its match in Eniiyi, who doesn’t believe in it, and has fallen in love with a man she saved from drowning? Braithwaite’s first novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer, became a huge bestseller after it was published in 2018, and its follow-up is well worth the seven-year wait. Along with the intriguing superstition of the curse, it also explores the subtler lore woven through most families, such as unresolved grief and beliefs that hold us back. Often wryly funny but deeply empathetic to its characters, it’s a book to immerse yourself in.
