Jummy has won a place at Unity Hall, the finest girls’ boarding school in Southern Nigeria. It’s everything she could wish for, until her less fortunate best friend from home, Caro, arrives unexpectedly at the school ... to work, not to learn.
Book Features:
- A characterful, own-voices school story about a girl from Lagos, Jummy, who gets into her dream boarding school, by a fantastic new talent in middle-grade contemporary fiction.
- A glorious collision of old-fashioned boarding-school tropes with vibrant 1990s Nigeria.
- Irrepressible Jummy investigates an intriguing central mystery as her best friend from home turns up at the school.
- A serious theme of class and poverty underlies this joyful mystery
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