Cursed Daughters – the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite – is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!

Braithwaite is a Nigerian–British novelist and writer. Her first novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer, was published in 2018 to wide acclaim. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, longlisted for The Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2020.

In her new novel, Cursed Daughters, a young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin. It’s a wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry and superstition.

About the book

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace …

So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it’s Eniiyi’s turn – who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, is already used to her family’s strange beliefs, as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation.

Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?

‘Funny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love… Impossible to put down.’ – Abi Daré

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