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Tiny Sunbirds Far Away: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, from the author of The Language of Kindness

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By (author): Christie Watson

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD.

'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.

'This is not a bleak book: there is humour and love, especially in the growing relationship between Blessing and her grandmother, a traditional midwife. Absorbing and passionate' Guardian

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Product Details
  • Weight: 324g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2011
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781849163750

About Christie Watson

Christie Watson was a registered nurse for twenty years before writing full time. Her first novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away won the Costa First Novel Award and her second novel Where Women Are Kings was also published to international critical acclaim. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages. The Language of Kindness Christie's first work of narrative non-fiction is forthcoming internationally.

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