YESENI AND THE DAUGHTER OF PEACE

256pp., paperback, Unbound, London, 2023

ISBN: 9781800182219

Teen novel set in West Africa in 1748.

Elewa, known as ‘the Daughter of Peace’, is responsible for maintaining the fragile truce between the warring peoples of her West African kingdom. As she begins to understand her role, she discovers that she has Yeseni, a gift that allows her to see events from any point in time, and to travel into the past and future.

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Solange Burrell grew up in Bristol and moved to London to study journalism. Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace is her first novel.