Fiction
Bitter Honey
by Lola Akinmade
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The powerful third novel by best-selling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black and Everything Is Not Enough spans four decades and three continents, telling the story of mothers and daughters, and the importance of carving your own path. Nancy is a Gambian immigrant to 1978 Sweden, and her daughter Tina becomes a pop star in 2005 L.A.
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North America: William Morrow, September 2025
Endorsements
"Brilliant...Lola Akinmade Akerstrom has a sharp voice in the world of nuanced contemporary women's fiction." Jennette McCurdy, best-selling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died
“Incendiary, emotionally devastating, absolutely wonderful” Onyi Nwabineli, author of Someday, Maybe
“Deft storytelling and absorbing prose. These rich characters' lives are complicated, messy and heartbreakingly real as they struggle with love, family and identity in a world that consistently thwarts women's ambitions. Their passions, desires and vulnerability will stay with readers long after they finish this fascinating page-turner.” Jo Piazza and Christine Pride, co-authors of bestselling novel We Are Not Like Them
Author Biography
Lọlá Ákínmádé is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and award-winning photographer. She is based in Sweden. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, Sunday Times Travel, The Telegraph, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Cosmopolitan. She is the author of two acclaimed novels: In Every Mirror She’s Black and Everything Is Not Enough. She is also the author of 2018 Lowell Thomas Award winner for best travel book, Due North, and bestselling LAGOM: Swedish Secret of Living Well, available in 18 foreign language editions. She has been recognized with multiple awards for her work, including a 2022 Hasselblad Heroine and the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award. She was honoured with a MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Award within media and culture in 2018, 2023 Most Influential Women in Travel by Travel Pulse, and 2024 Condé Nast Women Who Travel Power List.
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Craig Literary, founded by Jessica Craig in 2016, is a full-service literary agency representing diverse writers of fiction, non-fiction, and children's books. The agency grows out of Jessica Craig's 20+ years of experience as a top foreign rights agent and on her record as an effective international champion of high quality authors, from established names to outstanding debuts, and across genres in fiction and non-fiction.
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- Publisher/Imprint Bloomsbury / Head of Zeus
- Publication Date May 2025
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Copyright Year2025
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