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Nights of the Creaking Beds

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Nights of the Creaking Beds

By: Toni Kan
Narrated by: Akin Omotoso
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Nights of the Creaking Bed is full of colorful characters involved in affecting dramas: a girl who is rejected in love because she has three brothers to look after; a middle-aged housewife who finds love again but has an impossible decision to make; a young man who can't get the image of his naked, beautiful mother out of his mind; a child so poor he has to hawk onions on Christmas day - and many others. Some, initially full of hope, find their lives blighted by the cruelty of others, or by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or by just not knowing the "right" people. Corruption, religious intolerance, gratuitous violence, the irresponsible attitudes of some men to their offspring, and the importance of joy are some of the big themes that underlie this memorable collection.

©2008 Toni Kan (P)2020 Recorded Books Anthologies & Short Stories Genre Fiction Short Stories Urban
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The stories could have done with a bit more development. The author should have reduced the number of stories and focused on ensuring all the stories had meaningful endings

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