No One Said It'd Be Easy
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When she loses her sweetheart Wassi to her best friend Xissola, Hadjame puts herself and all her entire family in a complete distress, until she has determined to put her past behind. Ten years on, she still has the feeling as though it was yesterday when she was a happy, innocent girl with her first love Wassi, best friend Xissola, older brother Kizua, younger sister Chimene, her grandma and parents. She was a born dreamer and believed in real love, and while she was attached to her past with Wassi, Hadjame could not find herself attracted to anybody else, as a result of this, decided to use education as a means of escape. Seeking for a new life after travelling from Angola to USA to further her education in Psychology, she will be reunited with ex-boarding school mates Marta and Bonitao who help her to come face to face with her past again. But can Hadjame overcome her fears, trust and forgive both her ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend again, inspite of everything they had made her life into?
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Separated from her family at a young age for her education, Hadjame meets her first love, Wassi, and this resulted in her facing many challenges. She loses him to her best friend Xissola. This is not how she expected things to turn out, and her grief and sense of betrayal, led her to focus on her education as a means of escape. Ten years on, the ghosts of her unresolved love for Wassi still pursues her everywhere she goes, but Hadjame will discover that as people grow up their dreams can become lost or changed forever.
A story of courage and determination, “No-one Said It'd be easy”, is a familiar refrain of Hadjame's father, a young Angolan girl which enables the reader to identify with the various stages of her life, and learn something of African culture.
About the Author
Suzeth Mawote was born in the north of Angola in 1983, but she grew up in the capital of Angola-Luanda, where she attended primary and secondary schools, and later on at a young age went to a boarding School at The National Institute of Petroleum in Sumbe Province. Since an early age, she had a pure passion for writing. She used to be a member of the “Union of Angolan writers’’ where she had met with some of the greatest writers of the Country and learnt more skills from them. Presently she lives in Scotland where she is undertaking her university course in Geology and Petroleum Geology at the University of Aberdeen and “No-one said it'd be easy” is her debut novel.