His Only Wife: A Reese's Book Club Pick - 'Bursting with warmth, humour, and richly drawn characters'

His Only Wife is a feel-good debut novel by Afi Tekple, set in modern-day Ghana, about a young seamstress who is convinced by her family to marry a wealthy businessman she has never met. When she arrives in Accra, she realizes her fairy-tale ending may not be all she had hoped for.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

From the Women Prize-listed author of Nightbloom comes a feel-good debut set in modern-day Ghana, about fashion and finding your voice. Vivid, witty, and utterly absorbing, this novel follows Afi Tekple, a bright young seamstress from a small town in Ghana, as she is convinced by her family to marry a man she has never met. Elikem Ganyo is a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen Afi in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. The fact that she doesn't know Elikem seems a small price to pay for a marriage that offers her family financial security and provides the key to a lifestyle she has always wanted. But when Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, she realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

His Only Wife is a life-affirming, must-read novel about a young woman's search for independence in a man's world, and the rules she just might have to break along the way. An Observer, Time Magazine, and New York Times Book of the Year, 2020, this novel was also a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and is longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards.

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress from a small town in Ghana. Her family has convinced her to marry Elikem Ganyo, a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen her in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, and realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Elikem Ganyo is a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen Afi in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, and realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress from a small town in Ghana. Her family has convinced her to marry Elikem Ganyo, a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen her in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, and realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Elikem Ganyo is a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen Afi in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, and realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Afi Tekple is a young seamstress from a small town in Ghana. Her family has convinced her to marry Elikem Ganyo, a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen her in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, and realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Elikem Ganyo is a wealthy businessman whose family has chosen Afi in the hope that she will distract him from a relationship with another woman they think is inappropriate. Afi arrives in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, and realizes her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780861541454
Edition number: MMP