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Author : Toni Kan Genre : Fiction My Rating: 3.5 Stars Number of Pages : 166 Year of Publication : 2008 SUMMARY Nights of the Creaking Bed is full of colourful characters involved in affecting dramas: a girl who is rejected in love, because she has three brothers to look after; a middle aged housewife who finds love again but has an impossible decision to make; a young man who can't get the image of his naked, beautiful mother out of his mind; a child so poor he has to hawk onions on Christmas day - and many others. Some, initially full of hope, find their lives blighted by the cruelty of others, or by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or by just not knowing the 'right' people. Corruption, religious intolerance, gratuitous violence, the irresponsible attitudes of some men to their offspring and the importance of joy are some of the big themes that underlie this memorable collection. MY VERDICT A collection of 14 short stories on love, lust, corr...

Add me on phhhoto: ceeamonye :) Author: Marilyn Heward Mills   My Rating: 4| 4.5 Stars Genre : Fiction Number of Pages: 370 pages Year of Publication: 2006 SUMMARY Fourteen year old Matilda Lamptey's life changes forever when the suave and sophisticated Gold Coat lawyer Robert Bannerman decides to take her as his second wife. With her childhood snatched away, Matilda finds herself trapped in a jealous household, and finds herself constantly out-manoeuvred by Julie, Bannerman's first-wife. At the same time, we follow the story of Audrey, the wife of the assistant to the Governor in the Colonial Office. Her life has also been turned around as she faces the tedium of daily life and the unbearable heat. Cloth Girl is a lucid account of life in colonial West Africa, told through the eyes of two very different women. Marilyn Heward Mills' first novel is full of expressive prose and a compelling read. " Mills' first novel is an assured study of Gha...