His Only Wife : A Reese's Book Club Pick - 'A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa, with a healthy splash of feminism' Hardback

AN OBSERVER, TIME MAGAZINE & NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 A REESE WITHERSPOON'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'Vivid, witty and utterly absorbing.' Daily Mail'Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.'Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana.

She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her family to marry a man she does not know.

Elikem Ganyo is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hope that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claim is inappropriate.

Marrying a stranger seems a small price to pay in exchange for financial security for her family and the lifestyle she's always wanted in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication.

But when Afi arrives in the city, she realises her fairy-tale ending might not be all she had hoped for.

Her days are spent with nothing to do but cook meals for a man who may or may not turn up to eat them. Can she really live this life without losing sight of herself?Bursting with warmth and humour, His Only Wife is a witty, smart and moving novel about a brave young woman and her search for independence in a man's world, and the rules she just might have to break along the way.