Yinka, Where is Your Huzband?: ‘A big hearted story about friendship, family and love’ Beth O’Leary

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A non-existent man in a non-existent marriage whose whereabouts is often questioned, usually by Nigerian mums and aunties to single British Nigerian women Das Buch fand ich echt super: Ehrliche Unterhaltung, wo wirklich niemand verschont wird, allen It’s two hours into my sister’s baby shower and so far not one person has said, ‘So, Yinka, when is it going to be your turn?’ Or the classic, ‘Yinka, where is your huzband?’ Although this book has very little romance, I enjoyed the slow-burn attraction that Yinka experiences. The banter and cute moments between the characters were so nicely done I was soon rooting for them and waiting impatiently for scenes with them together. Spreadsheets, meddling aunties, and makeovers. . . . Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? is a delightful journey of a British Nigerian woman longing to find love, and to love herself. Reader, you'll root for Yinka the whole way’ Patricia Park

When her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find A Date for Rachel's Wedding. Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs is to find herself? I love everything this book stands for, and how the issues with identity (being too dark/not light enough to be beautiful) were also brought up. Lizzie wrote the book that Yinka needed growing up, basically.Reading Paulette Jiles' revenge western Chenneville, it's easy to remember she's a poet. She plays ... Turns traditional elements of romantic comedy on its head, discussing love and how it can weave its way between two cultures.” Yinka represents a lot of women who don’t have a lot of self-confidence. Because of her early life experiences, she has been led to believe that she is to be blamed for her singleness. This book really kept pushing it with my emotions because it was so frustrating that she couldn’t see that she wasn’t the problem. Nevertheless, her feelings were pretty realistic and it was comforting to see her have a superb growth by the end. I’m glad that she discovered that the root of her problems could also stem from the kind of people she is surrounded by. Her friends weren’t the best but it was super cool to see them all grow together. We usually see growth focused on the main character, but a lot of characters in this one had some growth which was amazing. That could only explain why in 2019, I entered The Literary Consultancy’s Pen Factor competition. Run annually at their Writer’s Day event, five shortlisted writers are given the opportunity to pitch their novel to a panel of agents. And yet, I was very hesitant about applying. What a darling book! Yinka, Where is your huzband? drew me in right away with the banter between Yinka and her overbearing family. It is at times bitingly funny and relatable, I giggled out loud so many times my partner asked me to finish the book upstairs (!). Yinka’s internal struggles to meet the standards and expectations placed on her by everyone else are familiar…. A gorgeous, easy read, but with real depth to its punchy chapters. This book is really just such an extraordinary debut from one of the UK’s sure-to-be rising talents in contemporary fiction. BRAVA!!!!”

LDB: I think they do have an impact because they are the readers ultimately, so when a book receives a lot of buzz and a lot of hype, everyone jumps on that, but I know there are some stories that don’t have the same attention, but they are well written, they are just as good, sometimes even better. I don’t know how we do it, but if there is a way for all books to get the same level of attention, though I know some books are published by smaller publishers and don’t have the same resources. I don’t know if it should be us as the readers to go support all authors, but look at independent and self-published books as well because there are a lot of gems in them as well. TS: What are the books that really impacted you in your life or a book that you are reading currently that really touched you. rounded up because this was my life at 31 to a certain degree. I recommend this for someone looking for a rom-com type of book and the ending was really neat in terms of how it all wrapped up but that is also to be somewhat expected with it being like a rom-comwonderful stars for Yinka, Nana, Donovan, and this whole cast of characters! (Thank you Doubleday Canada for a gifted copy in exchange for an honest review). The best thing about Yinka, Where is Your Huzband is the amalgam of interesting and fully fleshed out characters that really bring the story to life. Each with its own eccentric personally, adding deph and humour to the story. Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over.

The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. Yinka's Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she's too traditional (she's saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life…well, that's a whole other story. But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find her when the time is right. this novel follows yinka through a tried-and-true character development arc, from inciting incident ("where is your huzband????") to rising action (poor choices, self-sabotage, wallowing, changing oneself for the guy, neglecting friends and loved ones, generally figuring out what it means to love oneself) and finally the turning or breaking point when she digs herself out of the conflict, with lessons learned, hard truths faced, and growth claimed. On 7 July 2020, my phone rang. It was less than twenty-four hours after we had submitted my manuscript to a list of editors, and my agent Nelle Andrew was calling. She told me that Katy Loftus, a publisher at Penguin, wanted to pre-empt my book, and equally excitingly, she wanted to speak to me. I was calm on the call, but after I hung up, I went apeshit. How was this happening to me? I feel like I’d have more tolerance for her behaviour if this was a coming of age story. But such behaviour from an otherwise well-adjusted woman in her thirties was bizarre to me. Maybe I’d have felt differently if we were given a reason for her being a late bloomer, or if she’d had that Bridget Jones charm.

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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY MARIE CLAIRE, PARADE, ESSENCE, MS. MAGAZINE, POPSUGAR, BUSTLE, BOOKRIOT, DEBUTIFUL AND MORE! 20 Feel good, funny, and clever, it17 got smash-hit written all over it!21 11 Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December 20 Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster12 which is to say, she isn17 t actually a disaster at all...I adore her.21 12 Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is 20 Yinka, where is your huzband?21 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Yinka17 Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she17 too traditional (she17 saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life30 well, that17 a whole other story.nbsp But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find her when the time is right. nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp till, when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find-A-Date for Rachel's Wedding. Aided by a spreadsheet and her best friend, Yinka is determined to succeed.nbsp Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs to find is herself? nbsp nbsp nbsp Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? is a f Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is "Yinka, where is your huzband?" Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!”–Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December