Ola and Michael are #couplegoals #blacklove, complete with a viral proposal post in Santorini. However, with less than a month until their wedding, cracks begin to form in their union, and quickly everything starts to fall apart.

An anonymous, crowd-sourced list of sexual abusers and assaulters is published on an anonymous Twitter account, listing Michael (in the company of hundreds of men) as a harasser against whom someone allegedly took out a restraining order.

Ola, Michael’s fiancée, a dedicated feminist and a journalist for a women’s media outlet, finds herself in a private and public battle with an online mob, her fiancé, and her close friends. Labels like “enabler” and “fake woke” start getting tossed around, and in the court of Twitter, she is deemed guilty by association.

As the wedding day approaches, will the accusations, rumours, and pressures from all sides break this prominent couple?

Set in London, Yomi Adegoke’s “The List” is a timely book that serves as a stark reminder that online life is real life, with consequences that extend beyond the digital realm. It also interrogates the complexities of heterosexual relationships in a time of woke culture, feminism, and toxic masculinity.

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