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Yinka thought that if she walked towards the sunrise then she would get home. ‘Never, Eat, Shredded, Wheat, North, East, South, West’. She chanted in her head as she brushed herself off, being careful not the catch any of the scratches that had begun to crust on her skin.  She looked down at her feet. They were cut and grazed, but her soles were thick from walking without shoes so much and she thought: ‘I’ll walk home’.

Yinka was, as her mother would say when there was no one around but the two of them, in deep shit. She has been transported from a Lagos suburb to the bushlands on the outskirts of her hometown in a vanful of her family’s belongings; now she has to find her way home with only a vague understanding of compass-points and her new friend, Dog. Meanwhile, as her family desperately seek their missing daughter, family bonds begin to splinter and dark secrets are revealed.

Set in Nigeria, the magical tale of a lonely and vulnerable girl who uses her imagination to navigate through a world of deceit, desperation and loss.