The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Daré

Adunni, our narrator, is a 14-year-old girl who lives in a small town several hours’ drive from Lagos. She is about to be illegally married off to raise money for her father. Her bride price will be used to pay the family’s rent, among other things. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself. The story told in this novel is an important one: the trauma of girls forced into marriage and the blight of domestic slavery in Nigeria. Adunni’s story will break your heart, and put it back together again.