What ensues is the delicious unspooling of a group of women desperate to preserve themselves. In this dazzling debut novel, Disha Bose revolutionizes age-old ideas of love and deceit. Everyone seems to have something to gain from Ciara’s death, so if they don’t want the blame, it may be the perfect time to air their enemies’ dirty laundry.
Then Ciara is found murdered in her own pristine home, and the house of cards she’d worked so hard to build comes crumbling down. When Lauren finds an unlikely ally in Mishti, she decides that her days of ridicule are over. With her disheveled partner and children who run naked in the yard, they’re mostly a happy lot, though ostracized for being the singular dysfunction in Ciara’s immaculate world. She wants what Ciara has-the ease with which she moves through the world-and, in that sense, Mishti might be exactly like the other mothers.Īnd there’s earth mother Lauren Doyle: born, bred, and the butt of jokes in their village. Discontent in a marriage arranged for her by her parents back in Calcutta, Mishti now raises her young daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her. Ciara welcomed Mishti into her inner circle for being.
But behind the filters, reality is less polished.Įnter Mishti Guha: Ciara’s best friend. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success-a picture-perfect life is easy money on Instagram. April 2023Ĭiara Dunphy has it all-a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. But the more she discovers about Nicole, the more Claudine’s own buried history threatens to come to light.Īn inventively told and keenly observant thriller where nothing is as it seems, The Nigerwife offers a razor-sharp look at the bonds of family, the echoing consequences of secrets, and whether we can ever truly outrun our past. Armed with only a cell phone and a plane ticket to Nigeria, she digs into her niece’s life and uncovers a hidden side filled with dark secrets, isolation, and even violence. As the investigation turns up nothing but dead ends, her auntie Claudine decides to take matters into her own hands.
She left gloomy London and a troubled family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming part of the Nigerwives-a community of foreign women married to Nigerian men.īut when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks in her so-called perfect life start to show. Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria and a glamorous group of friends.
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