The Fourth Finger – Sally Kenneth Dadzie’s Best Work Ever

The Fourth Finger – Sally Kenneth Dadzie’s Best Work Ever

 

We don’t always get to read about a cheating wife in these parts. Popular opinion tells us men hold the fort when it comes to infidelity. Even on social media, you read stories of wives lamenting over being cheated on by their husbands, carrying on affairs with strange women outside their marriages. Rife on gossip blogs are tales of celebrities sharing their own heartbreak stories over infidelity.

But Sally in her book, The Fourth Finger, takes us out of that narrative by showing us a different side of marriage, a side that is rarely talked about – the cheating wife.

In this book, she explores what happens when a man discovers that his wife is deep into an affair with his closest friend. Does he expose them? Does he get revenge with his friend’s wife? Does he forgive his wife and let her back in?

Nimide Ogbeun, in this review of The Fourth Finger, talks about the book:

Let me start by saying … Sally Kenneth Dadzie’s The Fourth Finger is one hell of an entrancing read!

The 663 paged novel is so intricately woven that my head was left spinning from the plots and twists that came with it.

It started with Raji and Christie, Raji who is married to Salma and Christie to Raji’s best friend, Folarin. Please hang in there … it gets even more interesting …

Things take a different turn when they are caught in a web of lies, adultery and deceit with their partners none the wiser. The adulterous tempest doesn’t end with them, but spreads through several other characters in this book, like the biblical Jezebel, looking for who to devour.

Sacred marital vows are broken, trust is severely damaged and a once love-filled home is filled with threats and veiled accusations. Sex is a weapon here, just like in real life, and businesses are sealed with it, vengeance is gotten with it, and homes are destroyed on its premise.

The characters in this book run amok with their amorous desires and lust; taking what doesn’t belong to them and dipping their fingers in who doesn’t belong to them with such reckless abandon.