So, sorry as she was for making a fool out of an old doctor… - Buchi Emecheta

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So, sorry as she was for making a fool out of an old doctor, this was just one of the cases where honesty would not have been the best policy.

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Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE (July 21, 1944 – 25 January 25, 2017) was a Nigerian-born novelist. Buchi Emecheta also wrote plays and autobiography, as well as works for children. She is the author of more than 20 books, including Second Class Citizen (1974), The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979). Most of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby, where her editor was Margaret Busby. Her works explore the tension between tradition and modernity. She has been characterized as "the first successful black woman novelist living in Britain after 1948".

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Alternative Names: Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta

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