Disturbing the Peace

written by Emmanuel Achu

If Minna has a successful career, a loving husband, wonderful children – all well-deserved – is it compulsory that she must also toil for a reckless sister who has diametrically opposed priorities? Her biased mother thinks so. What if the sister dumps her child on Minna’s veranda and vamooses and in trying to find the sister to give back her child, there appear some strange persons and a cult intended on grabbing the child? A decision has to be made and made fast. How could Minna ever envisage that in trying to help her careless sister and baby while taking care of her own family she would end up antagonising everyone in spite of her desperate battle to spread love to all? Just where are her priorities? How prepared is she for the unexpected conclusion to her simmering travails? Hell definitely breaks lose in this emotionally charged family saga in which Emmanuel Achu carves a world where such opposites as love and hate, sympathy and apathy, despair and hope, fear and courage, friendship and enmity reside as bedfellows. {Disturbing the Peace} is definitely a lyrical treat where you would be shocked to discover that being responsible can equate to being cursed.

Emmanuel Achu

Born in December 1965, Emmanuel Achu studied at Presbyterian Secondary School Mankon, CCAST Bambili, ENSET Douala, and University of Leeds, UK. He is a Pedagogic Inspector and Civil Engineer. From 2004 to 2006, he undertook mentoring programme on Writing organised jointly by the British Council and the University of Lancaster. Disturbing The Peace is his second novel. The first was Wrong Target published in 2003.