Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

Thank you to all the women who have supported and encouraged me; my aunties Priscilla St. Leger, Dr Esther Horner, Joy Abang and Claire Asu-Adinye. And to my international aunts Dr Musonda Mumba, Dr Ebere Okereke and Ifeoma Dike. Special regards to Auntie Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, author of Dust, an inspirational mentor.

It has been my dream to write a book since I was a child. Four months before my agent sold this novel to Simon & Schuster, I knelt down, unemployed and discouraged, at the American Poet’s Corner in the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York. I had trekked across Manhattan alone, gotten lost in Harlem for hours, just to find it. And when I finally did, I unlatched my backpack, collapsed on the cold stone and asked God to believe me when I told him that I longed to be a writer. Three weeks later, after returning to London, I got an agent. For this book and for everything before and after, I will always thank God ‘for he has crowned me with love and tender mercies and with all good things he satisfies me.’

About the Author

TEMI OH lives and works in London.

This is her first novel.

Copyright

First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2019

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Copyright © Temitoyen Ochugboju, 2019

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