In Dependence

* Over 3 million copies sold * Spanning four decades, the novel covers the upheavals of the era, from independence in Nigeria, to the Civil Rights movement in the US and the cultural and sexual revolutions all over the world. * Sarah has been shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize and the California Book Awards for her novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

A lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, aging, faith and family secrets.In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a former colonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a brave but doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love. A lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, aging, faith and family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, its Diaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.