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Where Women Are Kings

By: Christie Watson
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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Elijah, seven years old, is covered in scars and has a history of disruptive behaviour. His adoptive mother Nikki believes that she and her husband Obi are strong enough to accept his difficulties - and that being white will not affect her ability to raise a black son.

Elijah's birth mother Deborah loves her son like the world has never known. Elijah thinks it's his fault they can't be together. Each of them faces more challenges than they could have dreamed, but just as Elijah starts to settle in, a shocking event rocks their fragile peace and the result is devastating.

From the Costa Prize-winning author of Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, this wonderful new novel is read by Adjoa Andoh, the award-winning voice of novels by Dorothy Koomson and Alexander McCall Smith.

©2013 Christie Watson (P)2013 WF Howes Ltd Family Life World Literature

Critic Reviews

"Funny, heartbreaking and utterly real: the characters lodge in your imagination long after you finish the book" (Costa Award judging panel on Tiny Sunbirds Far Away)
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Loved The Language of Kindness but the dark side of this, her first novel, was a little too much for me. A good story with the conflict of cultures, the ups and downs of the adoption process and some well developed characters was spoiled by the long, drawn out details of horrific abuse by the child's mentally ill birth mother. It felt like a campaign to make the public aware of the extent of the problem facing social workers, families and the children at risk, most of all.

Child abuse hard to take.

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