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Bad Love

Maame Blue author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd

Published:18th Jun '20

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A young woman living in London, Ekuah loves deeply and loves hard, yet with each romantic encounter she is left feeling increasingly unmoored and adrift. She struggles in her love for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician, who is both passionate and distant in the way he loves her back. Confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship, he suddenly disappears from her life. Heartbroken, she is left to pick up the pieces, while searching for new validations and preoccupations from others.

But when, against a backdrop of enigmatic, poetic, nights in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, she finds an unexpected new love in the form of Jay Stanley, Ekuah re-focuses on her journey to meaningful love. She is determined to feel deeply again, but can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness that comes with falling in love?

Bad Love has a somewhat misleading title. Though it is about how we hurt and are hurt in love, it is ultimately about the resilience of love across space and time. -- Jane Link * https://www.bigblackbooks.org/bad-love-maame-blue/ *
Bad Love reflects the complexities of humanity rather than an idealist's view on humanity. By the end, no one is a hero or villain. The reader takes something of a journey too, one that inspires us to be more open. * Rewrite London *

  • Short-listed for Betty Trask Award 2021 (UK)
  • Long-listed for The Booker Prize 2020 (UK)

ISBN: 9781913090180

Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 24mm

Weight: 294g

352 pages