BITTER HONEY

434pp., paperback, Head of Zeus, London, 2025

ISBN: 9781804548196

A novel that explores the mother-daughter relationship, family secrets, and the search for identity.

In the late 1970s a scholarship takes Nancy from Gambia, her homeland, to Sweden. Over two decades later her daughter Tina, who has tasted fame as Sweden's Eurovision pop princess, is desperate to discover who she really is.

"Bitter Honey is an urgent call for empathy, grace and understanding." Glamour

"Akínmade is a master at shading the gaps between power and love.'" Chika Unigwe

Lolā Ākinmādē is an author, keynote speaker and travel photographer. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the New York Times and Lonely Planet, amongst others. She is the author of the non-fiction titles Due North and LAGOM: The Swedish secret to living well, and the novels In Every Mirror She's Black and Everything is not Enough.