It's a memoir.
My Life as Sugar
A Memoir of Everything I Built and Everything I Hid
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What's inside
6 x 9 in. · Section-sewn · 80gsm cream paper · Foil and deboss · Matte jacket · Picture inset
What this book is
To the world, she is Nurse Sugar. Glamorous, successful, self-made. Millions watch her pack orders, coach nursing students, and celebrate a fairytale Nigerian wedding that lights up the internet.
Nobody sees the rest.
Born in one room in Ibadan, Nigeria, and raised on faith, milk tea, and her parents' sacrifice, Sugar leaves Nigeria with nothing but ambition. She survives the U.S. Navy, fails one exam, and turns that failure into a business that puts her name in thousands of nurses' hands. She builds the life she promised herself.
Then comes the wedding the internet falls in love with, and the beautiful life becomes a beautiful lie.
Behind the posts and the pink office is a woman sleeping on her own couch, paying every bill, begging to be believed, while millions watch a life she no longer recognizes.
Told in urgent, unflinching present tense, My Life as Sugar is the story of a woman who built everything, hid everything, and finally chose herself. It is for every woman holding something heavy inside a life that looks perfect from the outside.
You can choose yourself. This is what it costs, and what it gives back.
From Sugar
For years you watched me win. The scrubs, the study guides, the pink office, the wedding that lit up your feeds. What you never saw is what it cost to keep smiling while my real life came apart quietly behind the camera. This book is the part I could not post. I wrote it for every woman building something beautiful while carrying something heavy. You are not alone. You can choose yourself. Thank you for waiting for me. Here is everything.
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There is a fixed number of copies in this printing. Once they are claimed, this edition is gone. It will not be reproduced.
- Release
- October 20, 2026
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- Within 14 days of release
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The Readers Club
Your Readers Club access card opens a part of the story that is not in the book. The making of it, the pages that did not make it, letters, and evenings. Readers only, from the day your box arrives.
About the Readers Club →Early praise
I have felt many things while reading books, but never have I carried such a heavy, sad heart from the beginning of a book to the very end, as I did reading My Life as Sugar. It is a true story many women need to read, but also one you would never wish for another woman to live through. There is no blame sharing, just an honest recounting of events that slowly breaks your heart. And yet, you cannot stop turning the pages because beneath all that sadness, you keep hoping the author will finally wake up and choose herself. Choose her worth. A painful, necessary read. Absolutely a must-read.
Ifedayo A., early reader
This book took me on a journey, a true rollercoaster of emotions. There were moments I found myself applauding the author, and others where I was completely shocked. An amazing read, and I'd definitely recommend it.
Racheal O., early reader
This is the part of my life I never posted, bound and numbered.
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