Ancestor Stones is the stunning debut novel from Aminatta Forna about the untold stories of four remarkable African women.
Abie follows the arc of a letter, from London back to Africa, to a coffee plantation that now could be hers.
Thus begins the gathering of her family’s history through the tales of her aunts — four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her grandfather.
Theirs is the story of a nation, a family and four women’s attempts to alter the course of their own destiny. The quality of the writing leaps off the page at you, as you follow the lives of these women.
Aminatta Forna is the author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir of her dissident father, which was runner-up for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003 and serialised as ‘Book of the Week’ on BBC Radio.
As a former BBC reporter, she reported on politics, current affairs and arts programmes between 1989 and 1999, and is a contributor to several English newspapers.
Ancestor Stones is out in paperback, at 12.50 euros.
