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About ‘The Girl With The Landing Voice’ By Abi Dare presents one heck of a storyline. Most people like me would not let go of the pages of this fascinating book until they reach the very last page of the book. Trust me, this review asserts such a fact.
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Book Title: The Girl With The Louding Voice
Author: Abi Darè
Number Of Pages:348
Published by: Dutton
An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Year of Publication: 2020
Have you ever read a book where you can legit hear the voice of the main character clearly? And Adunni’s voice was definitely a ‘Louding’ one. I definitely won’t be forgetting Adunni or her story anytime soon. Even though this is clearly fiction, it felt like I was reading a person’s memoir or journal.
I haven’t fallen this madly in love with a character in a long long while. The Girl With The Louding Voice is one book that deserves all the awards it’s been nominated for, and every single word of praise and hype it’s been getting.
All our narrator, a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl Adunni wants is an education, and to be a teacher.
But alas, she is sold as a third wife by her father to a man decades older than her, in exchange for rent money and food. At the hands of her new husband, Adunni is made to experience things that no fourteen years old should ever have to experience at the hands of her husband and his first wife.
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When the second wife dies tragically and it looks like Adunni will be forced to pay for a crime she didn’t commit, she runs away from home and ends up being sold as a maid to a harsh mistress, Big Mama in Lagos.
Written in broken English, The Girl With The Louding Voice is a story of resilience, hope, of determination. Throughout the story, the hardships and abuse Adunni faces, her determination and resolve to get an education, even going ahead to read and study on her own, shines brightly.
I finished reading this novel in just a little over 4 hours. Adunni’s story kept me on the edge of my seat and aroused every emotion you can think of in me.
I was outraged that such things as child marriage and child labour still happen in Nigeria in the year of our Lord 2020.
” And I didn’t even see that nonsense Mr Kola man since he dropped me in this house. Mr Kola is a slave trader. He and Big Madam, are slave-trading people like me. The only difference is I am not wearing a chain. I am a slave with no chain.”
I pitied her, I laughed at and with her, I rooted for her, and when she won the scholarship, I cheered for her.
If this book isn’t on your Tbr pile already, it should absolutely be. If you are only going to read one book this year, this should be it.
Read this and thank me later.
You are most welcome.
For me, it’s ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 bright very LOUDING stars for this rare gem of a book
