Rosanna Amaka

Narrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of history. 

Over two hundred years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her young son to safety as she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her second child, a baby girl, is snatched away. Although the woman doesn't know it yet, her spirit is destined to roam the earth in search of her lost children.

Her spirit will make its way to modern-day England, where she watches teenage Michael trying to stay out of trouble as riots spit and boil on the streets of Brixton, and to a sun-baked village in Nigeria, where Ngozi struggles to escape her low-caste status. 

ONE WAR ONE SOLDIER ONE LOVE 1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of world young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep whooshes by filled with soldiers laughing and shouting their buttons shining in the sun.

To Obi their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages are hard to resist especially as he has his sweetheart Rose to impress and a family to support. Years later when Rose falls pregnant to another man his young heart is shattered. As the Burma Campaign mounts and Obi is shipped out to fight he is haunted by the mystery of Rose's lover. When his identity comes to light Obi's devastation leads to a tragic - and wholly unforeseeable - chain of events.