THE BOOK
CURSED DAUGHTERS BY OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE
No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace… So goes the family curse of the Faloduns. Now it’s Eniiyi’s turn; is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?
OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE
Oyinkan Braithwaite is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer. Her first novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer, was published in 2018 to wide acclaim. It was a Sunday Times bestseller, longlisted for The Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2020.She lives in London.
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The judges said: Cursed Daughters is a mesmerising literary ride packed with superstition, humour and love.
2025 Fiction judges
