This was such a touching family story, focusing on the lives of two black women, over a hundred years apart, and yet still linked.

This is a dual timeline narrative, focusing on Temi (a woman in Victorian England who ran away from her home in West Africa) and Landri (a woman in the present day who leaves her partner and goes to the house she inherited to give herself some space). This story talks about the expectations of women, and how so many of us have to rely on men, hoping that they will be good and have our best interests at heart. This talks about historical blackness and how people have had to FIGHT to get recognition, especially black women.

I don't want to spoil anything here, so I won't go into to much detail but I found this story to be incredibly compelling - I loved listening to it and would wake up wanting to listen to more. I wanted to understand how Landri and Temi were connected (this isn't a massive mystery and pretty clear after a while) but also wanted to know what happened to Temi and how this all ended. And I am really happy with how it ended for sure.

This is a lovely story and I would recommend anyone who would enjoy some of the themes I've mentioned above.

If anyone has read this and enjoyed it, I would recommend Now She Is Witch by Kirsty Logan, which also covers similar themes (but not racial ones).