Writer
A writer of Scottish and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Her memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest was followed by four novels; The Memory of Love won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in 2011.
Source ↗Books
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Mother of All Myths
Aminatta Forna
1998
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest
Aminatta Forna
2002
Ancestor Stones
Aminatta Forna
2006
The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna
2010
Bloomsbury
The Hired Man
Aminatta Forna
2013
Bloomsbury
Happiness
Aminatta Forna
2018
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
Aminatta Forna
2021
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