Bad Love by Maame Blue

SPOTLIGHT ON:

Bad Love

By Maame Blue

Narrated by Vivienne Acheampong

Released in audio by Audible on 18 June 2020

for £13.12 or 1 credit.

Bad Love tells the story of Ekuah Danquah, a London-born Ghanaian 

who is 18 years old when she falls in love for the first time. 

As both narrator and protagonist now in her 30s, 

she delves into her memories of angst and confusion that dismantled 

her experience of that first, impactful romantic relationship.

 It meets none of her rigid expectations and instead shines a light 

on other significant relationships in her life, especially the marriage of her parents, 

something she had long considered an unhappy pairing.

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To coincide with the Audible release, the print edition of Bad Love will be published 

by Jacaranda as part of their #Twentyin2020 campaign, 

publishing twenty titles by Black British writers this year. 

Audible is partnering with Jacaranda to exclusively produce the audio releases
of all  twenty #Twentyin2020 titles.

Already released under the #Twentyin2020 campaign are:
Lote by Shola von Reinhold, 
Through the Leopard’s Gaze written and narrated by comedian Njambi McGrath, 
The Space Between Black and White written and narrated by Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith
and Under Solomon Skies by Berni Sorga-Millwood, narrated by Damian Lynch.

About the author:

Maame Blue is a Ghanaian Londoner, writer, and project manager for not-for- profit organisations. As well as co-hosting Headscarves and Carry-ons - a podcast about black girls living abroad - she regularly runs social media campaigns for www.bmeprpros.co.uk and sporadically blogs over at www.maamebluewrites.com.

 In 2018 she won the Africa Writes x AFREADA flash fiction competition for her story Black Sky. She has since been published in AFREADA, Afribuku, and Memoir Magazine; with stories forthcoming in Storm Cellar Quarterly and Litro Magazine.

About the narrator:

Vivienne Acheampong is an actress and comedian, best known for featuring in Death in Paradise (2011), The Trap (2015) and Turn Up Charlie (2019).

About Audible:

Among the acclaimed performers who have narrated works of literature for Audible are Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Emma Thompson and Jesse Eisenberg.

Audible Studios has won a Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and has also been recognised with the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s performance of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. 

Audible invented and commercialised the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. On average, Audible members listen to Audible content for 2 hours a day. In 2018, Audible customers downloaded nearly 3 billion hours of content.