Brilliantly compelling.Bitter Honey explores the complexities, rifts and healing aspects of mother-daughter relationships, sisterhood, and how it's possible to dig deep, summon resilience, and find the strength to make positive transformations. It's a compulsive read, driven by complex, messy, realistic root-worthy characters. - LoveReading

An urgent call for empathy, grace and understanding. - Glamour

There's an urgent question running through Bitter Honey. What does it mean to parent when your life has been violently derailed by structures beyond your control? - The Conversation

A thrillingly pacey novel with precise historical detail that could be gulped down in just a few sittings. - Press Association

Praise for Lolá Ákínmádé:

'A sharply written story with messy, deeply moving characters'

-- Taylor Jenkins Reid

I was captivated by the writing from page one... Powerful -- Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Ákínmádé is a master at shading the gaps between power and love -- Chika Unigwe

A sexy, surprising, searing novel about love, loss, desire, and the many dimensions of Black womanhood. Timely and terrific! -- Deesha Philyaw