Unabridged Audiobook
I was puzzled by this story and in the end stopped listening to it because it seem to be about what I had understood it would be. I had read good reviews of this novel and decided to read/listen to it. I thought that the focus was on a mother of a family who, after the death of her husband, decided that she wanted to leave the UK and return to her former home in Nigeria - an interesting situation for her and her children, I thought. What I found were interminably long stories for each of the children, and their children, and then a return to the mother who wanted to return to her home. I missed the connections between them. The mother was "absent" from their daily lives and it seemed that their father had never been fully involved with them. I didn't see it as a family unraveling, rather, it was never together. Maybe I missed something but I found the story to be filled with too many threads that were not at any time connected.
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