4thWrite Prize 2023: My Last Real Housewife by Melissa Gitari - 4th Estate
Listen here, you rancid, buck-toothed beast: I’ve done nothing but love you! I’d drive my rose gold Bentley off a … Continued| 4th Estate
4thWrite Prize 2023: Back of House by Esther Okorocha| 4th Estate
I sold my Malibu house to a rightwing nut job and moved my company inland. Anyone with a man inside … Continued| 4th Estate
The thing to understand about Mira is that nothing happened suddenly. The light changed. The milk soured. She blinked too … Continued| 4th Estate
The instructions on the box said to leave the dye on for half an hour. She has just under two … Continued| 4th Estate
More than once during our one-month holiday in Nigeria, my husband, Dérin, had called Prophet Gbèmí, his mother’s pastor, a … Continued| 4th Estate
First, let me tell you this. I don’t know much about Allah. Not properly. Not the way other people speak … Continued| 4th Estate
Past the banyan trees, through sun-bleached wooden doors and a lobby watched over by a meditating Buddha, beyond the cracked … Continued| 4th Estate
NOON Nothing remains. In the end, nothing matters. The lilting sound of a whistle emerges in the distance again – … Continued| 4th Estate
She had come in through the back door late at night adorned like a bride. Standing alone in the vast … Continued| 4th Estate
Born in 1939, Joy always lived her life as if it would never end, as if she walked a fairground … Continued| 4th Estate
You looked adorable. Then again you always looked adorable to me, even when you were angry -sometimes especially so. Not … Continued| 4th Estate
Back of House: “The Chef de Cuisine of The Mating Clinic” The first thing that Bisi noticed as she walked … Continued| 4th Estate
Listen here, you rancid, buck-toothed beast: I’ve done nothing but love you! I’d drive my rose gold Bentley off a … Continued| 4th Estate
For the independent reader Founded in Notting Hill in 1984 on a shoestring budget and acquired by HarperCollins in 2000, … Continued| 4th Estate
'Riotously audacious and entertaining – cinematic, jazzlike, a humdinger of a novel' KAMILA SHAMSIE'A maximalist epic that grabs you by the collar'THE STATESMAN'A wild romp that ends with the scent of river water in your nose and the breath of a flute in your ears’INDIA TODAY| 4th Estate
Behba does not see him at first. True, there is little light inside the baithak, the windows still shuttered at … Continued| 4th Estate
Wrinkled clear film around a forearm. A menthol super-king cigarette is carried to Amy’s mouth. She takes a long, considered … Continued| 4th Estate
Her husband hasn’t forgiven her yet for adopting a dog without consulting him when they already have twin, 2-year old … Continued| 4th Estate
