"When I first happened upon Buchi Emecheta's writing...I had no doubt about the importance of making her personal experience...[which were] shared by many Black women [and which she had] transmuted into autobiographical literature...known to the British society in which we both found ourselves. [As her friend,] I was able to witness at first hand the dedication and effort she put into...her role as a single parent in a frequently uncaring society, and her editor and publisher for over a decade...it became frequently uncaring society, and as her editor and publisher for over a decade...it became my mission..to ensure that her view of the world was disseminated as widely as possible."
