A vividly realised historical novel about three generations of an African family, and their experiences of slavery, which draws on the author’s wider ancestral history.

Abiola is raised as an aristocratic African warrior in a highly developed civilisation, but when he is betrayed and sold into slavery in America he is forcibly transformed into the property of a French immigrant. Renamed Cornelius, he and fellow slave Delilah begin a relationship which culminates in the birth of their daughter, Epiphany, and the new family plan to escape their servitude and find a better life for themselves…

But can they return to Africa and find true freedom?