
Twilight at Terracotta Indigo
by Umari Ayim
Prose
Published: 2010
Pages: 355
ISBN: 978-1-4520-1987-1
Description
Marlene's life is changed forever the morning she wakes up with the husband and child she cannot remember. Lost in the present, she must depend on a diary, a phone and everyone's accounts of the past to piece together the puzzle that is her life. It is not long before she finds out that she is an unwanted member of an aristocratic Lagos family. Who was she before that fateful morning?. Was she the victim of a powerful alliance between the wealthy mother in law who hates her and a beautiful childhood friend of her husband or was she the villain whose obsession with work and love trysts with a stranger led to the breakdown of her marriage? Desperate to learn the truth about her past and what led to her amnesia, Marlene soon finds herself in the beauty studio on the busy Awolowo road Ikoyi where the lurking shadow of her past waits for her