Nominated for the Booker Prize 2019

Shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Korede is bitter. How could she not become? Her sister, Ayoola, is certainly a lot of things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, probably sociopathic. And today Ayoola’s third partner inside a row is normally deceased. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ savior. She knows the best solutions for cleaning bloodstream, the trunk of her car is usually big enough to get a body, and she will keep Ayoola from publishing pictures of her dinner to Instagram when about My Sister, the Serial Killer she should be mourning her ‘lacking’ boyfriend. Not really that she gets any credit. A sort, good looking doctor at a healthcare facility where Korede works is the bright place in her life. She dreams of your day when he will realize they’re perfect for one another. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he requires notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola’s contact number, she must reckon using what her sister has become and what she will do about any of it. Clear as fingernails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has created a deliciously lethal debut that’s as fun since it is normally frightening.

‘A literary sensation.’ GUARDIAN

‘A bombshell of the book… Sharp, explosive, hilarious.’ NY TIMES

‘Glittering and funny… A stiletto slipped between your ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart.’