True Murder
book by Yaba Badoe
True Murder is a novel by Yaba Badoe, a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. The novel centers around a 11-year old Ajuba abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanian father. Ajuba falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus, and her chaotic, glamorous family.
Quotes
edit- He left her to me. And for that I can never forgive him.
- Page 30
- Yes, some fathers are like that, ... It drives my mother crazy. Does Isobel go crazy as well?'
- Page 104
- 'Yeah. She doesn't understand Peter like I do. 'Just like my mother.' 'Yeah?'
- Page 104
- She hates it it when Pa has girlfriends. She says some men can't help themselves. Then she cries, and when she stops crying, she says they're weak - like children.
- Page 104
- My father must have realised that his marriage wasn't going to survive. He was biding his time, waiting for the right moment to leave. But there's never a good time to leave a grief-stricken wife.
- Page 30
- So, instead of abandoning us, Pa did the next best thing: he avoided my mother as much as possible, staying away for days on end.
- Page 30
- Dismissing her accusations of infidelity, he claimed she was imagining things; he was staying overnight with relatives.
- Page 30
- Since Mama wouldn't let them visit us, he was spending time with them for a change. Of course there wasn't another woman! Mama was being neurotic, overwrought.
- Page 30