Ayobami Adebayo's stories have appeared in a number of magazines
and anthologies, and one was highly commended in the 2009
Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She holds BA and MA degrees in
Literature in English from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. She
also has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East
Anglia where she was awarded an international bursary for creative
writing. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies
from Ledig House, Hedgebrook, Sinthian Cultural Institute, Ebedi
Hills, Ox-Bow School of Arts and Siena Art Institute. She was born
in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2017, her debut novel Stay With Me was
shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Scorching, gripping, ultimately lovely
*Margaret Atwood*
A must read
*AFUA HIRSCH*
This terrific first novel (shortlisted for the Baileys women's
prize for fiction) deals with the daily stresses of living with the
political upheavals of the time but the real drama is happening in
Yejide's womb. Adebayo unfolds the many layers of truth with
insight and skill
* * The Times * *
A thoroughly contemporary style that is all her own . . . clever
and funny . . . despite the intense sadness of her subject matter,
she has produced a bright, big-hearted demonstration of female
spirit, as well as the damage done by the boundlessness of male
pride
* * Guardian * *
Has a remarkable emotional resonance and depth of field [ . . .
Adebayo] is an exceptional storyteller. She writes not just with
extraordinary grace but with genuine wisdom about love and loss and
the possibility of redemption. She has written a powerfully
magnetic and heartbreaking book
* * New York Times * *
One of the must-reads books of the year so far: Stay With Me has it
all, including big themes of love, grief and jealousy, a fantastic
female protagonist plus it reads like a page-turning thriller
* * Stylist * *
Affecting and powerful . . . Adebayo's prose is a pleasure:
immediate, unpretentious and flecked with whip-smart
Nigerian-English dialogue
* * Sunday Times * *
This deeply impressive novel of infertility, loneliness and longing
is the first by the hotly-tipped Adebayo and it packs a tremendous
punch
* * Daily Mail * *
This confident and fearless writer challenges us to think about
marriage from all perspectives in her first novel . . . Stay With
Me is the closely observed, heartbreaking and original tale of the
desperate attempts we make to save ourselves from severing the very
bonds that make us
* * ELLE * *
This impressive debut creates, in deceptively simple prose, a
portrait of a marriage in crisis in a deeply patriarchal and
oppressive society
* * Mail on Sunday * *
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