In Dependence
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
It is the early-sixties when a young Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. In this city of dreaming spires, he finds himself among a generation high on visions of a new and better world. The whole world seems ablaze with change: independence at home, the Civil Rights movement and the first tremors of cultural and sexual revolutions. It is then that Tayo meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of an ex-colonial officer. In Dependence is Tayo and Vanessa's story of a brave but bittersweet love affair. It is the story of two people struggling to find themselves and each other - a story of passion and idealism, courage and betrayal, and the universal desire to fall, madly, deeply, in love.
Customer Reviews
Lovely and insightful
I began to read this book after watching the author speak. She was so genuine and warm that I had to check out her book. I am so glad I did. It’s lovely. The characters are deep and multifaceted. I felt for every one of them. The story is moving and realistic. I learned so much about Nigeria. This book will stay with me for a long time.
A Coma in Novel Form
This book has nothing in it-- prose, plot, or political pretensions-- that cannot be found better elsewhere.