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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

(2011)
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Awards
2012 Waverton Good Read Award
2011 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel

'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.' Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel - only married women can work there - and soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go and live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. Told in Blessing's own beguiling voice, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything. At times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, it is peopled with characters you will never forget.


Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"So good I had to lie down after reading it." - Trezza Azzopardi

"An excellent novel." - Giles Foden

"A must-read... set in an Africa few readers will have experienced." - Lesley Lokko


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