Book - BookDetective

Name: The Secret Lives of the Four Wives

Author: Lola Shoneyin
Year: 2010
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Fiction, Contemporary
Culture: Africa

Purchase/reserch links:

Goodreads

LibraryThing

Amazon

ISBNs:
9780061946370
0061946370

Attempting to rise above the secrets of her past, Bolanle, a university graduate, marries Baba Segi, who promises her everything in exchange for agreeing to become his fourth wife. Thus she enters into a polygamous world filled with expensive clothes, a generous monthly allowance...and three Segi wives who disapprove of the newest, youngest, most educated addition to the family. There's Iya Femi, a fiery vixen with a taste for money; Iya Tope, a shy woman whose kindness is eclipsed by terror; and Iya Segi, the first, most lethal, and merciless of them all.

Bolanle quickly becomes Baba Segi's prized possession...until her very presence unlocks a secret that the other wives have long since guarded, and unleashing it could change life as they know it.