Editor’s Pick In Every Mirror She’s Black

‘A sharply written story with messy, deeply moving characters’ Taylor Jenkins Reid ‘I was captivated by the writing from page one… Powerful’ Lizzie Damilola Blackburn ‘The story of Kemi, Muna and Brittany-Rae – Black women hoping to start anew in a society that does not see them – is a story for these times’ Chika Unigwe ‘A sexy, surprising, searing debut about love, loss, desire, and the many dimensions of Black womanhood. Timely and terrific!’ Deesha Philyaw Three very different women are desperate for their lives to change. Though strangers, they are drawn to the same place: Stockholm, a city famed for its egalitarianism. But beneath the city’s glittering surface lurk challenges old and new. Challenges that threaten to tear them down once and for all…

One of Condé Nast Traveler’s ‘Most Powerful Women in Travel’, Lolá Ákìnmádé is an NAACP-nominated international bestselling author, keynote speaker and award-winning travel photographer. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the New York Times, and Lonely Planet, amongst others. She is the author of award-winning non-fiction book Due North, international bestselling LAGOM: the Swedish Secret of Living Well, and highly acclaimed novels In Every Mirror She’s Black and Everything Is Not Enough. Her honours include Hasselblad Heroine, Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award, Newsweek Future of Travel Storytelling and MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent).