Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozu Adichie

Half Of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village works as a houseboy for a University lecturer. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. The third is Richard, a shy Englishman in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. When the shocking horror of the war engulfs them, their loyalties are severely tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways that none of them imagined...

I just finished reading this book late last night, early this morning (however you want to look at it) and loved it! It was fantastic and urge you to read it. It's beautifully written, and characterised and just sucks you in and won't let go. It was one of those books that, once you're into it- you can't but it down and read well into the night thinking "just one more chapter" until before you know it, it's 4am and you have to be up for 9 (oops).