Fans of Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling Nigerian author of My Sister, the Serial Killer, have reason to celebrate! Braithwaite has revealed the gorgeous UK and US covers for her “wickedly fun” new novel Cursed Daughters — and it’s now available to preorder!

Cursed Daughters is slated for release in the UK this September and in the US this November. With anticipation building, the strikingly different covers for each market have offered readers their first visual taste of what’s to come. The US cover is a beautiful melding of warm and cool layered colors and impressionistic painted faces, signaling emotional connection in a constantly changing world. The UK cover leans into the dark, mysterious aspects of the story, with an eerie image evoking danger.

Set in Lagos, Cursed Daughters follows Eniiyi, a young woman born on the day her cousin Monife is buried. The resemblance between the infant and the deceased is so uncanny that her family becomes convinced she is Monife’s reincarnation—“fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including that tragic end.”

This belief is further entangled with a long-standing family curse: “No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace…” This ominous legacy has haunted the Falodun women for generations, leaving heartbreak and abandonment in its wake. Three generations of women live under one roof, burdened by stories they cannot escape and superstitions that seem to control their fate.

But Eniiyi wants more. When she falls in love with a boy she saves from drowning, she dares to hope for a future different from the one her family insists is already written. Desperate to escape the cycles of grief and loss, she seeks answers in the spiritual undercurrents of Lagos, turning to the older, darker forces her ancestors once feared. What unfolds is a bold and emotionally charged journey through love, identity, and the weight of generational trauma.

“Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of modernity and superstition, vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation,” shares the publisher. With her signature wit and piercing insight, Braithwaite crafts a novel that is as funny as it is profound—one that explores how women carry inherited wounds, and what it means to break free from the past.

With this second novel, Oyinkan Braithwaite is well on her way to cementing her place as one of the most exciting voices in literature today.