Bush Meat

For Sarah’s family, memories of early Sixties Aba in south-eastern Nigeria are scorched onto their hearts. In twenty closely linked stories, Bushmeat explores an expatriate family’s two year stay in 1960’s Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction.

Mandy Sutter went to school in Nigeria and Bromley but now lives in Yorkshire. She has co-written two non-fiction books about Somali women. Her first novel, Stretching It, was published in 2013; her third poetry pamphlet, Old Blue Car, in 2015. This novel’s first chapter, ’ Bush Meat’, won first prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards in 2016.