Rukky Brume grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. Her ‘breathtaking’ debut novel, It Comes in Waves, featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Wednesday 24th June 2026, follows Onome, a law student in London, whose father dies suddenly in Nigeria. Returning home for his funeral, she learns an aspect of his life she never knew.
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