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You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty


Akwaeke Emezi


‘Emezi is a dream of a writer. My heart soared and shook and panted.’ Bolu Babalola

Have you fallen for this INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING novelist’s sizzling hot entrance into the world of romance?

A TIME NEXT GENERATION LEADER

‘A deeply heartfelt romance novel.’ Marie Claire

‘By turns raunchy, sad and uplifting.’ Grazia

It’s the opportunity of a lifetime:

Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City’s blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new…

The only problem is, she’s falling for the one man she absolutely can’t have.

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature; and Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, longlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

Category:  Contemporary Fiction
ISBN:  9780571372676
Publisher:  Faber & Faber
On sale:  June 2022
Format:  Paperback
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