IN THE PALACE OF FLOWERS

313pp., paperback, Abuja, 2021

Historical novel. Jamīla, an Abyssinian slave, and Abimelech, a fellow slave and a eunuch, navigate the dangerous politics in the court of the Iranian Shah in the 1890s.

Victoria Princewill was born in 1990 in the UK. She has written for the Guardian, The London Review of Books and BBC News. In the Palace of Flowers is her debut novel. She lives in London.