- Blacks, Fiction, Yoruba (African people), Fiction, general
A semiautobiographical novel about a Nigerian girl's adjustment to life at an English boarding school in the 1950s.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Simi Bedford
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Heinemann, Mandarin, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780749310653
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