PRAISE FOR LOLÁ ÁKÍNMÁDÉ ‘Lolá Ákínmádé crafts sharply written and deeply moving characters, raising brutal questions and steering clear of easy answers.’ Taylor Jenkins Reid 'The queen of messy characters!' Onyi Nwabineli 'Bitter Honey is an urgent call for empathy, grace and understanding.' Glamour 'Ákínmádé is a master at shading the gaps between power and love.' Chika Unigwe '[Bitter Honey] is a real tour de force. Akinmade is a gifted storyteller.' Gary Younge 'I loved BITTER HONEY... one of the best books Lola has ever written.' Kim Golden Two women. Four decades. A lifetime of secrets. 1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia’s warmth into Sweden’s winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars blossoms into something more, she thinks she may have finally found her place. But there’s more to Lars than his charming persona, and Nancy is about to discover the danger of being drawn into his world… 2006: Tina has had her taste of fame as the nation’s Eurovision pop