Title:
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TINY SUNBIRDS FAR AWAY
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By: |
Christie Watson, Adjoa Andoh |
Format: |
Downloadable audio file |
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£24.98 |
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ISBN 10: |
1780878206 |
ISBN 13: |
9781780878201 |
Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
1 October, 2012 |
Edition: |
Unabridged |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. (P)2012 Quercus Editions Ltd |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Quercus Publishing |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |