The Girl with the Louding Voice book will feature on BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Jo Whiley on Monday 23 March 2020. I had the wonderful opportunity to illustrate the portrait for this amazing book.
And The Bookseller magazine has also has written about the book as its Ones to Watch.
You can also see the title on the BBC website’s recommended reading list for 2020.
And it makes an appearance on Cosmopolitan magazine’s “The best books being published in 2020” list.
Here is the blurb for the book:
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education.
As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni’s life amounts to this: four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes in her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni…
As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, fourteen-year-old Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won’t be silenced. She is determined to find her voice – in a whisper, in song, in broken English – until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.
Kimberley Chen 
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