The Deep Blue Between

A teen feminist epic of love, courage and determination, as twin sisters try to find each other again in 19th-century West Africa and Brazil

'Uplifting… sizzles with sister-love and magic. What an incredible story-teller!' Yaba Badoe, author of A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars

Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina are torn apart after a brutal raid on their village. This tragedy will set them on a voyage to unfamiliar cities and cultures where they will forge new families, ward off dangers and begin to truly know themselves.

As the twins pursue separate paths in Brazil and the Gold Coast of West Africa, they remain connected through their shared dreams. But will they ever manage to find each other again?

A rich, sweeping historical adventure, The Deep Blue Between is a moving story of the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood



Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born writer living in Senegal. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University and New York University. She is the author of the Commonwealth Writers Prize-nominated Harmattan Rain, Saturdays Shadows and The Hundred Wells of Salaga, currently translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Elle Italia, Asymptote and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers' Anthology. This is her first book for teen readers.