It’s the characters that really make the story: the formidable Aunty Eguono, an unstoppable force wreaking havoc and Safiya, a fellow Nigerian studying at the LSE, with whom Onome has a touching friendship that crosses the Christian-Muslim divide.

CATASTROPHES have a way of unleashing further catastrophes. For Onome Odafe, a law student in London, the first is a phone call from her sister back home in Nigeria, and the words “Daddy … stroke … he didn’t make it”. As if raw grief were not enough, Onome soon finds herself struggling with family strife, the disastrous spilling of long-kept secrets and a crisis of faith. Yet Rukky Brume’s debut novel, It Comes in Waves, is also full of wry humour.

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