Baby Is Mine: Quick Reads

Bambi is thrown out of his home by his girlfriend and has nowhere to go, but he finds himself at his Uncle's house during a blackout. He is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman, both claiming to be the mother of the baby boy in his crib. During the night, Bambi is kept awake by the baby's cries and during the days, he is disturbed by a cockerel that stalks the garden. A blood stain appears on the wall, and tribal markings are scored into the baby's cheeks. Who is lying and who is telling the truth? This is a gripping distillation of Braithwaite's distinctive brand of comic domestic noir.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books

A blackly funny piece of Lagos gothic, a short-story exclusive about parenting and playboys for the Quick Reads literacy programme.

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his Uncle's house in lock-down Lagos. He arrives during a blackout, and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim to be the mother of the baby boy, fast asleep in his crib.

At night Bambi is kept awake by the baby's cries, and during the days he is disturbed by a cockerel that stalks the garden. There is sand in the rice. A blood stain appears on the wall.

Someone scores tribal markings into the baby's cheeks. Who is lying and who is telling the truth

Weight: 98g
Dimension: 419 x 228 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838952563
Edition number: Main