Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Praise for When We Were Birds

This magical tale of a Trinidadian gravedigger searching for a father he never met proves we should believe the hype

Stella, Sunday Telegraph

Luminous, gripping, packed with drama, colour and tension... A thoroughly original and emotionally rich examination of love, grief and inheritance... Like the vultures which escort dead souls to the afterlife, Ay ...

Economist

Tender and lonely and powerful... A love letter to Trinidad [and] a vivid debut about romance and loss in the Caribbean... It also centres another kind of love: the complexity of mothering and its beau ...

Guardian

This magical tale of a Trinidadian gravedigger searching for a father he never met proves we should believe the hype

Stella, Sunday Telegraph

Luminous, gripping, packed with drama, colour and tension... A thoroughly original and emotionally rich examination of love, grief and inheritance... Like the vultures which escort dead souls to the afterlife, Ay ...

Economist

Tender and lonely and powerful... A love letter to Trinidad [and] a vivid debut about romance and loss in the Caribbean... It also centres another kind of love: the complexity of mothering and its beau ...

Guardian

This magical tale of a Trinidadian gravedigger searching for a father he never met proves we should believe the hype

Stella, Sunday Telegraph

Luminous, gripping, packed with drama, colour and tension... A thoroughly original and emotionally rich examination of love, grief and inheritance... Like the vultures which escort dead souls to the afterlife, Ay ...

Economist

Tender and lonely and powerful... A love letter to Trinidad [and] a vivid debut about romance and loss in the Caribbean... It also centres another kind of love: the complexity of mothering and its beau ...

Guardian

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