Bad Love – as well as being released as an audiobook by Audible – is a title published by
Jacaranda Books. It is part of Jacaranda’s #Twentyin2020
campaign, publishing twenty titles by Black British writers this year.
The audiobook was released on 18th June to coincide with the print release and is narrated by
Vivienne Acheampong.
Bad Love tells the story of Ekuah Danquah, a London-born
Ghanaian who is 18 years old when she falls in love for the first time. As both
narrator and protagonist now in her 30s, she delves into her memories of angst
and confusion that dismantled her experience of that first, impactful romantic
relationship. It meets none of her rigid expectations and instead shines a
light on other significant relationships in her life, especially the marriage
of her parents, something she had long considered an unhappy pairing.
Jacaranda’s
#Twentyin2020 campaign, is publishing twenty titles by Black British writers this
year. Audible is partnering with Jacaranda to exclusively produce the audio
releases of all twenty titles. Already released under the #Twentyin2020
campaign are: Lote by Shola von Reinhold, Through the Leopard’s Gaze written
and narrated by comedian Njambi McGrath, The Space Between Black and White
written and narrated by Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith and Under Solomon Skies by
Berni Sorga-Millwood, narrated by Damian Lynch.
About the Author
Maame Blue is a Ghanaian Londoner, writer, and project
manager for not-for- profit organisations. As well as co-hosting Headscarves
and Carry-ons - a podcast about black girls living abroad - she regularly runs
social media campaigns for
www.bmeprpros.co.uk and sporadically blogs over at
www.maamebluewrites.com. In 2018 she won
the Africa Writes x AFREADA flash fiction competition for her story Black Sky.
She has since been published in AFREADA, Afribuku, and Memoir Magazine; with
stories forthcoming in Storm Cellar Quarterly and Litro Magazine.
About the Narrator
Vivienne Acheampong is an actress and comedian, best known
for featuring in Death in Paradise (2011), The Trap (2015) and Turn Up Charlie
(2019).
About Audible
Among the acclaimed performers who have narrated works of
literature for Audible are Zachary Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins,
Emma Thompson and Jesse Eisenberg. Audible Studios has won a Grammy Award, for
its production of Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s Child, and has also been
recognised with the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, for Colin Firth’s
performance of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. Audible invented and
commercialised the first digital audio player in 1997, and has since been at
the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook download segment. On
average, Audible members listen to Audible content for 2 hours a day. In 2018,
Audible customers downloaded nearly 3 billion hours of content.
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