“For Adunni, a louding voice is a few things: it is the refusal to be silenced by society, it’s the desire to go for everything good and everything positive that can come her way.” In this video, Abi Daré talks about her debut novel, The Girl With the Louding Voice (Dutton, 2020), the main character’s motivations, and how some of the ideas she had for her novel were inspired by her mother’s advice.
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