Summary of the book

This book is written by Buchi Emecheta who is one of Nigeria's great literary talents, has been a librarian and a community worker and now divides her time between University teaching in London and Nigeria. The gist idea of this book is about social divisions and about two young people who fall in love, although the beliefs of their people will not allow them to marry eachother. There is a lady called Aku-nna and she has a younger brother. Their father died when they were young, and they have no one to look after them. However they were welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's bride price ( the money that her future husband will pay for her). In her new, strange home one man was kind to her and taught her to become a woman. Soon they were in love,however everyone says he was not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they were drawn together until, finally something has to break which was death of her.