Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn is a British-Nigerian writer, born in Peckham. In 2019, she won the Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Writing Competition with the early draft of Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?, which she had been writing alongside juggling her job at Carers UK. She now lives with her husband in Milton Keynes.

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    By : Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

    Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

    ₦5,000.00

    NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY MARIE CLAIRE, PARADE, ESSENCE, MS. MAGAZINE, POPSUGAR, BUSTLE, BOOKRIOT, DEBUTIFUL AND MORE!

    Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is, “Yinka, where is your huzband?”

    Yinka’s Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she’s too traditional (she’s saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life…well, that’s a whole other story.  But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find her when the time is right.

    Still, when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find-A-Date for Rachel’s Wedding. Aided by a spreadsheet and her best friend, Yinka is determined to succeed. Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs to find is herself?

    Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? is a fresh, uplifting story of an unconventional heroine who bravely asks the questions we all have about love. 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.

    “Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” – Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

    “Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all…I adore her.” – Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation

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    By : Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

    Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? – Trade Paperback Edition

    ₦7,500.00

    “A story about friendship, family, romance and the most important quest of all –

    loving and accepting yourself.” – Lauren Ho

    Yinka wants to find love. Her problem? Her mum wants to find it for her.

    She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom. Plus thereʼs her preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum sheʼs sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that sheʼs thirty-one and doesnʼt believe in sex before marriage might be a bit of an obstacle too….

    So when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences ʻOperation Find A Date for Rachelʼs Weddingʼ. Armed with a totally flawless, incredibly specific plan, will Yinka find herself a huzband? What if the thing she really needs to find is herself?

    “A total joy to read . . . Yinka is the most lovable character Iʼve come across in a long time.” – Beth OʼLeary

    “A beautiful, big-hearted story about friendship, family and love.” – Emiko Jean

    “Your bookshelf needs this . . . full of heart.” – Jendella Benson