Independent Bookshop Week: Bad Love by Maame Blue

For Independent Bookshop Week we’ve twinned with Jacaranda Books an award-winning independent, black-owned publisher and bookseller of adult fiction, non-fiction & Young Adult Fiction. Each day of the week we will be celebrating and promoting a different title by Jacaranda.

Today’s title is ‘Bad Love’’ a novel by Maame Blue, a Ghanaian Londoner, writer. In 2018 she won the Africa Writes x AFREADA flash fiction competition for her story Black Sky. Buy it in store during Independent Bookshop Week and get 20% off the RRP.

Order your copy today directly through October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get a commission on your purchase.

Bad Love by Maame Blue
Paperback RRP £8.99

A young woman living in London, Ekuah loves deeply and loves hard, yet with each romantic encounter she is left feeling increasingly unmoored and adrift. She struggles in her love for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician, who is both passionate and distant in the way he loves her back. Confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship, he suddenly disappears from her life. Heartbroken, she is left to pick up the pieces, while searching for new validations and preoccupations from others.

But when, against a backdrop of enigmatic, poetic, nights in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, she finds an unexpected new love in the form of Jay Stanley, Ekuah re-focuses on her journey to meaningful love. She is determined to feel deeply again, but can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness that comes with falling in love?

Order your copy today directly from October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get commission on your purchase.

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