PURPLE HIBISCUS PB

The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili’s world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer sleep study prayer.When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup Kambili’s father involved mysteriously in the political crisis sends her to live with her aunt. In this house noisy and full of laughter she discovers life and love – and a terrible bruising secret deep within her family.This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new childhood and adulthood love and hatred – the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.