[Ákínmádé] pulls no punches' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'The queen of messy characters!' Onyi Nwabineli 'Bitter Honey is an urgent call for empathy, grace and understanding' Glamour 'Ákínmádé is a master at shading the gaps between power and love' Chika Unigwe Two women. Four decades. A lifetime of secrets. 1978: A scholarship draws Nancy from Gambia’s warmth into Sweden’s winter. When her friendship with charismatic scholar Lars blossoms into something more, she thinks she may have finally found her place. But there’s more to Lars than his charming persona, and Nancy is about to discover the danger of being drawn into his world… 2006: Tina has had her taste of fame as the nation’s Eurovision pop princess. But beneath her glittery façade, Tina is desperate to discover who she really is. Her mother, Nancy, seems desperate to keep the past under wraps, but will an unexpected figure help open the door? With a mother-daughter relationship at its heart, BITTER HONEY explores relationships,
