A “lively” (Washington Post) and “dazzling” (E! online) debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group—“sort of like Sex and the City but set in London. And with mystery. And murder.” (Cosmopolitan)
Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he’s just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends.
Boo has everything Ronke wants—a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she’s frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be.
Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle. No one knows she’s crippled by impostor syndrome and tempted to pack it all in each time her boss mentions her “urban vibe.” Her husband thinks they’re trying for a baby. She’s not.
When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel explodes into the group, it seems at first she’s bringing out the best in each woman. But the more Isobel intervenes, the more chaos she sows, and Ronke, Simi, and Boo’s close friendship begins to crack.
“A fun, juicy read with a dash of drama” (Good Housekeeping), Wahala is “both great fun and extremely smart…. May is a masterful chronicler of Black upper-middle-class life and ennui in Britain” (npr.org).
