Lead Review

  • Book: Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?
  • Location: London
  • Author: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Review Author: tripfiction

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This novel has a youthful charm to it, it’s bright and bubbly and full of life. A romcom with Nigerian flavour.

Yinka is a 31 year old British Nigerian woman who is now being pressured to get married. Mum is not so subtley dropping hints and cajoling her to find the right man. Now is the time, especially as her younger sister is already married and pregnant!

It is her colourful journey, navigating family (especially the aunties), finding solace with her friends and trying to make sense of her place in her community and, well, in life. At times it is a funny and joyful adventure for her, relatable for many … I even read one review recently that cited it as “the spiritual heir” to the Bridget Jones novels! Which I kind of get.

Yinka is not altogether a woman of the world, she values sobriety and is generally a good girl and respectful of her religious upbringing. Adventures and encounters are amusingly – occasionally poignantly – portrayed and her efforts to rectify her single status are admirable. She embarks on therapy because just maybe she is on the wrong track….

The book prints some of her lists, her social media dialogues, and WhatsApp exchanges, which make the whole narrative feel quite peppy.

This is an upbeat and heart warming novel, that started out as a series of blogposts. It will appeal to many people – probably younger – and anyone who enjoys a rambunctious and bubbly group of people. Location isn’t strong, but you get a really nice sense of Yinka’s home life and culture.

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