Purple Hibiscus

The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer; sleep; study; prayer. When Nigeria is shaken by a military coup; Kambili's father; involved mysteriously in the political crisis; sends her to live with her aunt. In this house; noisy and full of laughter; she discovers life and love - and a terrible; bruising secret deep within her family. This extraordinary debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun'; is about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new; childhood and adulthood; love and hatred - the grey spaces in which truths are revealed and real life is lived.