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Audiobooks by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
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WINNER - LITERARY TITAN GOLD BOOK AWARD
For fans of IN EVERY MIRROR SHE’S BLACK and EVERYTHING IS NOT ENOUGH, you asked for Jonny’s view. Now you have it.
We can’t control the privilege we’re born into, but we can control how we use it.
All Johan wants to feel is understood.
Not fawned over. Not treated fragilely. Simply understood. Heir to the Von Lundin empire, their golden boy Johan is as visible as he is invisible for many reasons his family would rather gloss over.
When he starts at Vauxhall Boarding School for the elite in the UK as part of “The Sweet Swedes” duo alongside his best friend Ragnar Pettersen, Johan starts to find his footing. But a chance meeting with Jamaican Brit Maya Daniels sets him on a lifelong chase for the one thing he can never fully have.
Is Johan a man spiralling out of control or a man finally falling comfortably into his own skin?
Spanning three decades, this coming-of-age story dives into the desires, deeds, and dark mind of one of the most controversial characters in Lola’s gripping book series - Johan “Jonny” von Lundin.
[ EDITORIAL REVIEW ]
★★★★★
'Sharp and immersive... There's a precision to the language that makes his world vivid...If you liked In Every Mirror She's Black, you'll appreciate how this novel expands that universe, offering Johan's point of view in all its raw, often disturbing honesty.' - Literary Titan
[ PRAISE FOR LOLÁ ÁKÍNMÁDÉ ]
'Lolá Ákínmádé crafts sharply written and deeply moving characters, raising brutal questions and steering clear of easy answers.' Taylor Jenkins Reid
'The queen of messy characters!' Onyi Nwabineli
'Ákínmádé is a master at shading the gaps between power and love.' Chika Unigwe"
"Bloomsbury presents Bitter Honey by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom, read by Dele Ogundiran and Palmira Koukkari Mbenga.
Two women. Four decades. A lifetime of secrets.
1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia’s warmth into Sweden’s winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars blossoms into something more, she thinks she may have finally found her place. But there’s more to Lars than his charming persona, and Nancy is about to discover the danger of being drawn into his world…
2006: Tina has had her taste of fame as the nation’s Eurovision pop princess. But beneath her glittery façade, Tina is desperate to discover who she really is. Her mother, Nancy, seems desperate to keep the past under wraps, but will an unexpected figure help open the door?
Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story of mothers, daughters, and the importance of carving your own path. P 2025 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC C 2023 Lola Akinmade Akerstrom"
"A timely and arresting debut novel about what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Perfect for fans of Queenie and Americanah.
Three Black women building new lives in Stockholm become linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man.
Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign. A killer at work but a failure in love, Kemi's move is a last-ditch effort to reclaim her social life.
A chance meeting with Jonny in business class en route to the U.S. propels former model-turned-flight-attendant Brittany-Rae Johnson into a life of wealth, luxury, and privilege – a life she's not sure she wants – as the object of his unhealthy obsession.
And refugee Muna Saheed, who lost her entire family, finds a job cleaning the toilets at Jonny's office as she works to establish her residency in Sweden and, more importantly, seeks connection and a place she can call home.
Told through the perspectives of each of the three women, In Every Mirror She's Black is a timely, richly nuanced novel that touches on important social issues of racism, classism, fetishization, and tokenism, and what it means to be a Black woman navigating a white-dominated society."
"The brilliant second audiobook from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She's Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm.
Yasmiin cannot comprehend what the policeman is saying to her. Her friend in a coma? Attempted suicide? Discovering she's listed as next of kin, Yasmiin looks to her friend's past to try and understand her actions, uncovering fresh mysteries at every turn. All the while, her own life seems to be running off course.
Kemi seems to have it all: a high-powered job, a beautiful flat, a loving boyfriend. So why doesn't she feel more settled? Unsure whether its homesickness, heartsickness or sick-and-tired-of-the-same-old-sickness, she embarks on a destructive path to try and change things up.
Brittany-Rae doesn't remember the woman she was before she met her husband Jonny. She knows she was an ambitious, confident go-getter, but now she's faded into Jonny's domineering shadow. And as she unearths disturbing secrets about her husband, she's focused on only one thing: her daughter, Maya, and ensuring she is as far away from Jonny as possible.
The three women's lives begin to overlap in the most unexpected of circumstances. Is it possible that the answer to their problems - though it seems impossible - lie in one another's hands?
Praise for the author: 'A sharply written story with messy, deeply moving characters.' TAYLOR JENKINS REID
'There's energy in the writing from the first page. Åkerström doesn't draw you into the story, she pulls you in with force.' THE TIMES
'I was captivated by the writing from page one... Powerful.' LIZZIE DAMILOLA BLACKBURN"
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