IT COMES IN WAVES

362pp., hardback, d.w.,#Merky Books, London, 2026 

ISBN: 9781529954159

Onome returns to Nigeria to attend her father's funeral and is forced to confront unsettling truths about him.

"It Comes In Waves is a beautiful, tender and simultaneously brutal exploration of family, grief and the secrets that bind and shape us. Told with clear, touching and bruising prose, Onome's tenacity, her journey to understanding and truth, and her relationships are unfurled in a story that will stay with you." Onyi Nwabineli

"This is a meditation on those first difficult moments that grip you after someone you love has died. It's painfully true, minutely observed and disastrously human in its unfolding. It Comes In Waves will leave you gasping for air, in the best ways' Maame Blue

Rukky Brume grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and lives in London. She studied Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and works as a finance lawyer. It Comes in Waves is her first novel.