Being a mum can sometimes mean that you feel as if your brain is on a permanent vacation. When you do have the time read a few pages of THAT MUST READ book you bought from Amazon 14 months ago you choose to go for the biscuits, put your most unattractive pj’s on and shamefully tune into Xfactor or waste an hour catching up with what the rest of the world (people you either don’t know or don’t care about) is up to via social media whilst feeling your brain melting away!!

Now it is time to start using that brain again! This doesn’t mean you have to become an Shakespeare aficionados overnight. A few pages of Jackie Collins will do

Our MM book club will be run by the lovely MM mamma Coralie Rose at THE LONDON EDITION. At this book club we will be talking about the book AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - don’t worry it’s not some kind of crazy intellectual discussion - just an excuse to use our brains and imaginations in ways we tend to forget.

From the award-winning author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ a powerful story of love, race and identity.

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

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