Title: Soft in Flowers
Description: Soft in Flowers is an unflinching, impactful portrayal of a child marriage and FGM experience seen from the child’s perspective and her young abusive husband, whose own life is marred by tragedy. Set in Zambia in the 70s, Maridbu’s life is turned upside down and caught up in unimaginable harrowing conflicts of tradition and culture, where murder, deceit and cultural obligations endanger the very fabric of a young woman’s life. A story that enhances and advocates that every human life’s struggles strengthens the human spirit and showcases the phenomenal power of helping those in desperate need. 

Every character is meticulously developed, daringly hopeful and uniquely life changing.

Soft in Flowers is a remarkable debut novel of epic proportions! “An amazing debut novel!” Sandra Poindexter, Author of Kepsium New Earth and The Psychiatrist.”