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Did We Really Need that Character?

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

April 25, 2019 by Ale Leave a Comment

I picked this up on a whim at a used book shop. The cover was nice and the first page was really intriguing. I got into it right away, and the story starts out with an incredibly compelling narrator, Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee escaping to England for asylum after a terrible event occurs in her village. As the story unfolds, however, the plot goes crazy-pants and we’re introduced to a second narrator, Sarah, a British magazine editor who met Little Bee through terrible circumstances […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asylum, England, Little Bee, Nigerian war, refugees

Ale's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asylum, England, Little Bee, Nigerian war, refugees ·
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