The Wild Wind

By Sheena Kalayil

Featured on the Guardian's 'NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019'

Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India.

His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences.

Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence - one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman's past and its repercussions on her future.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846974917
• ISBN13: 9781846974915
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Polygon
• Length: 256 Pages