Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2011.
Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-year-old Blessing and her family. Part comic, part tragic, it shows that some families can survive almost anything.
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'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.
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is available in Paperback, Ebook
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away was written by Christie Watson and published by Quercus Publishing Plc
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away has 467 pages
£9.89
