At the start of this story Kiki Banjo, the heroine, thinks that her established boyfriend Bakari is going to propose to her. Instead, he offers her a better job in the get rich company he has established. She’s starting to realise he’s not the one!

That’s because, although she denies it, she still fancies her old boyfriend Malakai even if that is rather underplaying her physical excitement whenever she meets him! Of course, this happens unexpectedly when she’s organising the wedding of her best friend, Aminah, and then, even more unexpectedly, an up-and-coming singer recruits them both to promote a new album. Working together allows lots of on-off tension and will they won’t they passion. There’s quite a lot of excitement about the wedding arrangements, and about Kiki’s parents and their Nigerian café. There’s basically a lot about Yoruba culture and how it operates in London.

So far this is a pretty standard romance but there’s more. Kiki is a successful podcaster and her podcast being the best allows her to be rudely dismissive of imitations of Nigerian culture, people who try to adopt elements of other cultures to be cool, music that isn’t sufficiently pure for her taste and even food which is not quite authentic enough. Bolu Babalola also drops continuous references to people, music and situations she approves of.

That might get up the noses of some readers. Other cultures are also being constantly appropriated, borrowed and probably abused by English culture, especially in the areas Kiki and Bolu are most angry about. It’s pretty clear that the food in your local Indian restaurant is not like food in Mumbai but that doesn’t mean it isn’t sometimes tasty. Sometimes this book is a bit smug and exclusive!

However, it’s a good story and the way that Kiki and Malakai slowly resurrect the steamy passion of their relationship is enjoyable, if a little drawn out, and nicely described. It’s also good to read a book about other cultures which is not draped in hardship and misery and there’s a happy ending as well!