When Eniiyi falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family’s history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse? Join Oyinka to discuss her new novel Cursed Daughters with writer Wendy Jones. Cursed Daughters was published in November 2025 and short-listed for the Nero Book Award for Fiction.

Oyinkan Braithwaite is the bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer, translated into 30 languages. It won the 2019 LA Times Award for Best Crime Thriller, the 2019 Morning News Tournament of Books, the 2019 Amazon Publishing Reader’s Award for Best Debut Novel, and the 2019 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 and longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 and the 2020 Dublin Literary Award. She has published short stories and is a screenwriter with two projects in development for television and one for feature film, the latter an adaptation of her first novel. She also wrote a novella The Baby is Mine in support of adult literacy.

Praise for Cursed Daughters

'A struggle to find independence and love in defiance of superstition unfolds across time in this compelling second novel' Financial Times

'A worth successor to My Sister, the Serial Killer' The Times

'Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of modernity and superstition, vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation" Goodreads

‘ABSOLUTELY RIVETING!!’
‘Will hook you from start to finish… I read in two days!’
‘Oh my gosh this book is so good!”
‘I cannot express how much I adored this book – like truly, madly, deeply adored it’