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To the dismay of her ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be.
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Paperback edition of the debut novel set in Nigeria, with vivid characterisations and histories of 4 very different women with an enormous secret.