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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
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