Article 470DE Oyinkan Braithwaite’s serial-killer thriller: would you help your murderer sister?

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s serial-killer thriller: would you help your murderer sister?

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Richard Lea
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The Nigerian author's darkly comic debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, has become a literary sensation. She explains her struggle with the moral ambiguity of her writing

When Oyinkan Braithwaite sent an early draft of her debut novel to a few friends, one of them told her it was the best thing she had ever written. "I was offended," Braithwaite says, her voice heavy with irony. "I knew how I had written it." She might not have thought much of it at the time, but this quick draft ended up unlocking deals with publishers in the UK and the US, as well as an option from the film company Working Title.

My Sister, the Serial Killer arrived in a feverish month, from a writer in a hurry and never looking back as she poured out a novel in an attempt to break a block. She shakes her head at the memory: "I was a bit mad during that period."

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