When Oyinkan Braithwaite decided to write a novel about a serial killer, she did not expect it to turn out funny.
"I didn't want it to be a depressing sort of story," says the Nigerian novelist over the telephone from Lagos, where she lives. "I wanted to keep it light. In trying to achieve that, it seems to have become funny."
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