'The Woman Next Door' by Yewande Omotoso is out and it would blow your freaking mind

The Woman Next Door is the latest novel from our woman crush everyday, slay story teller and all round beautiful woman, Yewande Omotoso.

Released earlier this month by Chatto & Windus, this book is poised to be one of 2016’s big hits.

This much-lauded book features Hortensia James and Marion Agostino, two successful women from completely different backgrounds brought together by an unforeseen event.

Fans of the beloved author need not worry: it looks every bit as wonderful as we all hoped, and the reviews are really good.

According to its description on the publishers page:

"Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. Both are living with questions, disappointments, secrets. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hatred and pruning both with a vim and zeal that belies the fact that they are both over eighty.

But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. And gradually the sniping and bickering softens into lively debate, and from there into memories shared and, finally, just possibly, into something that looks a bit like a (rather spiky) form of friendship."

This is one of the most charming and amazing story you will read this year —and that's just from a 2 sentence summary.

Prepare yourself guys and let's hold our chill till the book is released in Nigeria.

Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados. She grew up in Nigeria and moved to South Africa in 1992.

Her debut novel Bom Boy won the 2012 South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author, was shortlisted for the 2012 Sunday Times Fiction Prize in South Africa, and it was the runner-up for the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature.

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