The release date for the English version of 'The Girl with the Louding Voice' by
Abi Daré is Feb 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Your words are all that you have.
Adunni, a fourteen-year-old girl from Nigeria, is clear about what she desires: education.
She is an invaluable asset since she is the only child of a destitute parent. Adunni's existence consists of four goats, two sacks of rice, several hens, and a new television after she was taken out of school and sold to an elderly man as a third wife. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes in her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. Only Adunni is left...
Adunni, 14, is reminded again and over that she is nothing because she is a submissive wife, a dutiful daughter, and a helpless servant. Adunni, however, will not go silent. She's determined to stand out for herself, for the girls who came before her like Rebecca, and for all the girls who will come after—whether it be in a whisper, a song, or bad English.