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Lesley Lokko
Lesley Lokko

Lesley Naa Norle Lokko was born in Scotland in 1964 of mixed Ghanaian-Scots parentage. She grew up in Ghana, West Africa and was educated in Ghana, the UK and the US. She trained as an architect and has worked as a full-time academic in the US and the UK. She has published and lectured widely on the subject of race and its relationship to architecture. She divides her time between Ghana and the UK and is now working on her fourth novel.

 Bitter Chocolate Cover In the steamy heat of Haiti, seventeen year old Laure St Lazāre imagines a life beyond the strict rules of her grandmother. One hazy, hot summer Laure leaves her childhood and her home as she sets out for Chicago to start a new life. It's the start of a journey that will take her across continents and from shabby motels to high society haunts.
Saffron Skies Cover The women in Max Sall's life are very different and they all want his attention. While Amber and Paola are growing up, their mothers somehow find a way to share Max between them. But when Amber and Paola fall in love with the same man two decades later, they're determined that this time there will be no sharing.
Sundowners Cover Rianne de Zoete, heiress to a South African mining fortune, beautiful, privileged and thoroughly spoilt, is sent to school in England. Gabby, Nathalie and Charmaine will become her best friends and help her find her way in the strange new environment. Sundowners follows all four girls: their careers and relationships span twenty years and four continents, examining race, love and commitment through the lives and experiences of each of its characters. Lesley Lokko's first novel.