Engaging, fresh, heartwarming and poignant coming of age story of 25 year old people pleaser Maddie who lives with her family in London, which offers intimate insights into Ghanaian culture.

Her mother's pet name for her is Maame, meaning woman, and this proves to be pivotal in cementing Maddie's feelings that she has to put everyone else's needs before her own.

Maddie has grown up feeling the weight of responsibility from a young age. She is a carer for her dad who has Parkinson's, her mother regularly goes back to Ghana for a year at a time, and her brother is too busy leading a jet-setting, unencumbered lifestyle to offer any support. She regularly has to dip into her meagre funds to pay family bills and puts her life on hold to care for her father because that is what she is expected to do and she doesn't feel she has a choice, or very much support.

When her overbearing mother finally returns, Maddie feels able to spread her wings and move out. Before she can even move in she is unfairly fired by her dreadful boss after enduring her mood swings and erratic behaviour without complaint in exchange for the steady pay cheque, but now has to find a new job urgently.

Managing to find an admin role in publishing which is much better suited to her degree and her love of writing, once again the only Black woman, she still feels pressure to behave a certain way and not rock the boat. This becomes even more difficult when she realises her ideas are being used without her getting any credit.

Dating her first proper boyfriend and thinking she is finally starting to fit in, Maddie has a nasty surprise when discovers her new boyfriend treats his white girlfriends very differently.