A novel
The Harmattan Hour
One unsent letter. Three generations. A silence that finally speaks.
Pre-orders are open now, with signed copies for early readers.
About the book
- Genre
- Literary fiction
- Length
- 320 pages
- Formats
- Paperback and ebook
- Publisher
- Neribo Books
The rains are a week away, the air is thick with harmattan dust, and an archivist in Lagos opens a box she was told to leave alone.
Inside is a letter, sealed for forty years and addressed to someone who never received it. As she follows its trail from crowded Lagos markets to a quiet town outside Benin City, three generations of one family begin to speak of the things they have spent a lifetime not saying.
Tender, sharp and full of the sounds and flavours of home, The Harmattan Hour is a novel about inheritance, forgiveness and the courage it takes to finally open the envelope.
Some letters take a lifetime to arrive.
What early readers are saying
I started it on a Friday evening and finished it before Saturday's sunrise. Rarely has a first chapter stayed with me this long.
The kind of novel you press into a friend's hands and say, just read it.
Our advance-reader group talked for three hours and disagreed about the ending, which is how you know it is good.
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