An extract from When We Were Birds, the debut novel by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, published by Hamish Hamilton in February 2022 Yejide Is three days Yejide curl up on her bed under the mosquito net, listening to the storm outside. Three days since the wind set up and the first few fat raindrops pound […]
When we were birds
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When We Were Birds is the first novel by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Ayanna is from Trinidad & Tobago and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from UEA in 2018, where she is now a Creative […]
