Buchi Emecheta was a groundbreaking black British author, championing women and girls and writing about both the black British experience and the Nigerian experience. Emigrating from Nigeria to the UK, Emecheta wrote 20 novels. She wrote whilst raising her family, working, earning a degree in sociology and dealing with racism and domestic abuse. Emecheta was appointed OBE for literature in 2005. This is her fourth novel, about the life of an enslaved young woman, Ogbanje Ojebeta, in colonial Nigeria and it won the Jock Campbell Prize from the New Statesman in 1978.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First US edition. Hardback. Olive green boards with gilt lettering to spine. 179 pages. 21.5 14.5 cm. Near fine book in very good dust jacket.