Book Description

Set against the backdrop of inflation and political upheaval in Nairobi during the nineties, three families' lives interweave as they find themselves living across from each other in an idyllic middle-class estate: Malaba Estate, South B. Mrs. Mutiso has lived a reclusive life until the Mathais and the Karanja's move in. From the outset, they appear very different but as the decade charges on their lives begin to show similarities in the secrets they keep and the mistakes they make. In 2012, the neighbours reunite for a wedding where these friendships are tested when their secrets begin to unravel threatening their friendships and in Mrs. Mutiso's case, her life.