Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna is a Scottish-Sierra Leonean novelist, memoirist and professor at Georgetown University. Her fiction explores themes of memory, trauma and the aftermath of conflict across cultures. Happiness, available as an audiobook and book, is set in London and follows a wildlife biologist and a Ghanaian psychiatrist whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. Forna writes with elegance and emotional intelligence, creating fiction that captivates readers and listeners with its depth and humanity.