HOUSE WOMAN

270pp., paperback, Reprint, The Borough Press, London, (2024) 2025

ISBN: 9780008502751

Domestic thriller.

Beautiful young dancer Ikemefuna is flown from Lagos to Houston to meet her new husband Nna. When the promises made to her about her education, her freedom, and the man she will marry prove false, Ikemefuna becomes desperate.

"Unfurls bloody truths about the lives of girls and women in language that writhes and burns on the page. A jaw-dropping debut of intimate horror" Amy Gentry, author of Bad Habits

"Claustrophobic and very disturbing" Guardian, Best Crime and Thrillers

Adorah Nworah is an Igbo writer from South-East Nigeria. Her stories have been published in AFREADA and adda magazine. She lives in Philadelphia, where she practices real estate finance law.