Love in colour : mythical tales from around the world, retold

By:

Babalola, Bolu

Publisher: London : Headline, 2020Description: x, 290p.; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781472268860
9781472274823

Subject(s):

Summary: Bolu Babalola takes the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in her debut collection. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from countries that no longer exist in our world. A high-born Nigerian goddess feels beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover and longs to be truly seen. A young businesswoman attempts to make a great leap in her company, and an even greater one in her love life. A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether to uphold her family's politics, or to be true to her heart. Whether captured in the passion of love at first sight, or realising that self-love takes precedent over the latter, the characters in these vibrant stories try to navigate this most complex human emotion and understand why it holds them hostage. Moving exhilaratingly across perspectives, continents and genres, from the historic to the vividly current, Love in Colour is a celebration of romance in all of its forms.

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Book	BEH-MHT Library Service Items on Display		HWC BAB 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BEH00017
Book	CEME Library (NELFT) Shelves	Wellbeing	PZ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		NE10018
Book	Croydon Health Services Library Shelves		Health & wellbeing uplifting collection (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	02/11/2022	CR0000011448
Book	Ferriman information and Library Service (North Middlesex) Shelves		MBB BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		88001615
Book	Hillingdon Hospitals Library Services (Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation) Shelves	Wellbeing	WELL BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		hil000003
Book	Hirson Library (St Helier) Shelves		P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		040385
Book	Newcomb Library at Homerton Healthcare Shelves		HM 330 BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	24/05/2022	17840
Book	Royal London Library (Barts Health) Shelves			Missing		XBT07019
Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves	PAP	ZZ 5 BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Issued	06/06/2024	023592
Book	St Bartholomew's Library (Barts Health) Shelves			Available		T07018
Book	Stenhouse Library (Kingston Hospital) Fiction Collection		PZ BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		ST00015
Book	UHL Library (Lewisham and Greenwich) Special Collections		PZ BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		L04744
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves			Available		T06994
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves	Newham collection at Whipps Cross		Available		N05949
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves			Available		XBT07045
Book	Whittington Health Library Shelves		MBB BAB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00018295

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Bolu Babalola takes the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in her debut collection. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from countries that no longer exist in our world.

A high-born Nigerian goddess feels beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover and longs to be truly seen.

A young businesswoman attempts to make a great leap in her company, and an even greater one in her love life.

A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether to uphold her family's politics, or to be true to her heart.

Whether captured in the passion of love at first sight, or realising that self-love takes precedent over the latter, the characters in these vibrant stories try to navigate this most complex human emotion and understand why it holds them hostage.

Moving exhilaratingly across perspectives, continents and genres, from the historic to the vividly current, Love in Colour is a celebration of romance in all of its forms.

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