Past Participle
From Shelf: Fiction to get excited about Autumn 2023 (paperback)
A sweeping, suspenseful story of two women bound together by the devastating faultlines of a past tragedy, Past Participle is a study of love and guilt, power and desire, retribution and forgiveness, asking, what price a life?
Dakar, Senegal, 1987: On a rainy night after a wild party, the British ambassador's wife, Vivienne Hughes, is involved in a car crash. Her vehicle hits the motor-bike of a young Senegalese doc-tor, Aime Tunkara, killing him. Pleading diplomatic immunity, Vivienne and her husband flee to England. Three decades later, Aime's little sister, Lily Tunkara, now a high-flying lawyer in Dakar, finds a photograph that compels her to investigate what really happened that rainy night. As Lily faces in-creasing hostility from the local community, she turns to Vivienne Hughes, the only remaining wit-ness, but is either woman pre-pared for the truth to emerge?
RRP: £10.99
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781739982478
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