True Murder

Yaba Badoe True Murder is a novel by Yaba Badoe, a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. The novel centers around a 11-year old Ajuba abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanian father. Ajuba falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus, and her chaotic, glamorous family. Quotes He left her to me. And for that I can never forgive him. Page 30 Yes, some fathers are like that, ... It drives my mother crazy. Does Isobel go crazy as well?' Page 104 'Yeah. She doesn't understand Peter like I do. 'Just like my mother.' 'Yeah?' Page 104 She hates it it when Pa has girlfriends. She says some men can't help themselves. Then she cries, and when she stops crying, she says they're weak - like children. Page 104 My father must have realised that his marriage wasn't going to survive. He was biding his time, waiting for the right moment to leave. But there's never a good time to leave a grief-stricken wife. Page 30 So, instead of abandoning us, Pa did the next best thing: he avoided my mother as much as possible, staying away for days on end. Page 30 Dismissing her accusations of infidelity, he claimed she was imagining things; he was staying overnight with relatives. Page 30 Since Mama wouldn't let them visit us, he was spending time with them for a change. Of course there wasn't another woman! Mama was being neurotic, overwrought. Page 30 External link Freduagymen Amazon Goodreads Yaba Badoe Category:Literary works