The Housemaid

Amma Darko is the Ghanaian author of Beyond the Horizon.

A dead baby and bloodstained clothes are discovered near a small village. Everyone is ready to comment on the likely story behind the abandoned infant. The men have one opinion, and the women have another. As the story rapidly unfolds it becomes clear that seven different women played a part in a web of superstition, ignorance, greed and corruption.

Amma Darko’s new novel is a dramatic story of exploitation in modern Ghana.