Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?: ‘A big hearted story about friendship, family and love’ Beth O’Leary

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Turns traditional elements of romantic comedy on its head, discussing love and how it can weave its way between two cultures. When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of the children’s author Jacquline Wilson and she inspired me to turn my hand to writing. Wry, moving, irresistible, this is a love story that makes you smile but also makes you think–and explores what it means to find your way between two cultures, both of which are yours.

I also enjoyed how her roommate’s aromanticism was sensitively handled and actually a part of the story rather than just being a diversity box ticked off. Like Bridget Jones, Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all…I adore her. It’s been very heartening to hear from non-Black readers saying, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that was a real issue for Black women.Yinka acts like an oblivious, lying 15 year old for most of the book and I might have enjoyed it as a YA novel that focuses on loving yourself, body image, colorism, and how to navigate being British and Nigerian. This universal story of a young woman coming into her own contains many elements of Nigerian culture . Not to mention her pregnant sister has Yinka’s mother beating the dead horse asking “where is your huzband? LDB: I can’t say much about it, but if it was made into a TV series, I think for Donovan, I like John Boyega, I think they have similar hairstyles with the cornrows.

A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that's on the brink of collapse? I really enjoyed getting to see Yinka’s relationships with each person in her life and how difficult it can be to have a big family that knows no boundaries. Obviously in the media—not seeing enough dark-skinned women in music videos or playing the love interest in movies. I saw myself in Donovan, battling with my relationship with God when Christianity is so ingrained in Black culture all over the diaspora.A non-existent man in a non-existent marriage whose whereabouts is often questioned, usually by Nigerian mums and aunties to single British Nigerian women e.