Wúràolá is a doctor from a wealthy Lagosian family, cruising through the early stages of her medical career. Yet her family are more fixated on her fast-approaching 30th birthday and her marriage prospects to Kúnlé, a superficially charming family friend who in reality has a vicious, violent temper.  For Eniolá, meanwhile, a boy who lives in Wúràolá’s neighbourhood, life is on the skids. Barely 16, he carries the weight of providing for his family on his shoulders. Ever since his father lost his government teaching post, school has been a struggle and money tight. Eniolá’s best hope of redemption seems to be an apprenticeship in his aunt’s tailoring business – or perhaps the local Mr Big, a man known as “Honourable”, who needs big, strong lads to help him contest the election for the governorship of the province.  The lives of Wúràolá and Eniolá tessellate convincingly in contemporary Nigeria in Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s Booker-longlisted second novel , A Spell of Good Things.…