"Loss, lust, love, guilt and grief - this explosive, addictive literary love story cuts to the core of human experience"
Brimming, barely contained, with bone-deep grief and all-consuming awakenings of the sexual and soulful kind, Akwaeke Emezi’s You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is a uniquely compelling story about bravely risking setting lives aflame for love, for a chance to embrace a new, fulfilling life.
Five years have passed since Feyi’s husband died in a car accident. Though still grieving, her life is beginning to shift. She’s getting herself together as an artist in Brooklyn and, with the encouragement of her straight-talking, loving best friend, she’s ready to have sex for the first time since her husband’s death — urgent sex with no strings: “Feyi didn’t think she could stand it, to be touched so tentatively. People had turned her into webbed glass after Jonah died; it made her feel like a relic, not a person.”
Feyi’s first frantic carnal encounter spirals into her jetting to a Caribbean island with a guy whose well-connected art collector father, also a famous celebrity chef, has seen her art and offered to introduce her to a major curator who wants to show her work in a major exhibition of Black diaspora artists on the island.
Seismic emotional shifts erupt the moment Feyi steps foot in the stylish, tropical mountain home, where she faces tremendous conflicts of loyalty and pulls between the past and her possible future. Messy, moving, heart in-your-mouth stuff, told in dazzling prose.
| Primary Genre | Romance / Relationship Stories |
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BLOCKBUSTER BOOK TRENDS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEARNOMINATED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR ROMANCEA ZOELLA BOOK CLUB PICK'This book filled me with excitement and possibilities.' Jenny Colgan'Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.' @savidgereads'Say hello to the book of the summer' @bettysbooksuk'Fantastic . . . I cannot put it down.' @thebibliotucker____________Have you fallen for this INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING novelist's sizzling hot entrance into the world of romance?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.____________'A must read for all romance lovers' @between2books_'Emezi is a dream of a writer. My heart soared and shook and panted.' BOLU BABALOLA'A scorching tale of love after loss.' Kirkus Reviews
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty features in the following genres: Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Star Books, Recommendations, Books of the Month
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty was written by Akwaeke Emezi and published by Faber & Faber
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