Carole Enahoro

A hilarious send-up of geopolitical mendacity - John Barber , Globe and Mail

 

It is no mean thing to say that Enahoro has caught something of our time. Doing Dangerously Well does just that, an intriguing and heartfelt assault.  - Karen Luscombe, Globe and Mail

 

Broadcaster and art historian Carole Enahoro's debut is darkly, wickedly funny and deeply thought-provoking. - Sienna Powers, January Magazine

 

Reading Carole Enahoro’s work is like encountering a tree dripping with fruit — one is taken aback by the richness of what she creates. She is both generous and riveting. - Douglas Coupland

 

A hilarious mix of satire, political intrigue and environmental mis-management on two continents.  Underlying it all and bringing a more serious context to the narrative is the frantic jockeying for the international control of water resources in Nigeria, and in Africa generally... Enahoro's characters are larger than life as they bumble, manipulate and bribe their way through the political landscapes of Nigeria, Europe and Ottawa. - The Chronicle Herald

 

A diabolically satirical farce that leaves you shaking your head at one moment and quaking with laughter the next. - The Hour

 

Totally believable. Doing Dangerously Well features fascinatingly rich characters.... This is a writer to watch - NOW Magazine

 

If you think of Joseph Heller's Something Happened crossed with Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and a dash of William Boyd's A Good Man in Africa you begin to get an inkling of its scope. But then you also have to think of films like The Gods Must be Crazy and the amazing documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell and throw them into the mix to get some idea of what Enahoro has achieved with this novel.. It's a brilliant debut - Ruth Seeley

 

Enahoro has skillfully blended sardonic prose with sobering reality to produce a dangerously good read. - A Bookworm’s World

 

Once I started reading Carole’s book, I couldn’t put it down. It was vastly different than anything I had ever read. It was funnier, sadder, richer, and just plan more than I expected. And once you read it, you won’t look at water, or words, the same way again. - Erin Thomas

 

Wickedly funny...if you have a dark sense of humour. A Nigerian dam collapses and all sorts of amoral people in Nigeria and Canada get ready to make a profit...disaster capitalism...what a concept. Good Reads

 

The wit and satire woven into the storyline had me giggling out loud on the train a number of times. At 470 pages, it’s safe to say I invested quite a lot in this story and its characters, so thankfully the ending delivered a very satisfactory closing. - Dana Deathe