‘A moving story, skilfully told, about Eniola, a boy whose future has been snatched away from him, and Wuraola, a talented, overworked junior doctor, whose intertwined narratives combine to produce an insightful portrait of an unequal and deeply divided society moving towards a terrible crisis. A Spell of Good Things is both gripping and memorable’
PAT BARKER        

‘Adébáyò’s mesmerizing prose is suffused with heart and sharp emotions. Every page of this book was a pleasure to read. Even the hard parts. A Spell of Good Things is a triumph of storytelling’
CHIKA UNIGWE        

‘All characters matter in Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s intricate, haunting and timely fictional exploration of classism and sexism set in Nigeria’s election season’
SEFI ATTA        

Praise for Stay With Me:

‘Scorching, gripping, ultimately lovely’
MARGARET ATWOOD        

‘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 . . . [Adébáyò] 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        

‘This terrific first novel . . . deals with the daily stresses of living with the political upheavals of the time but the real drama is happening in Yejide's womb. Adébáyò unfolds the many layers of truth with insight and skill’
The Times        

‘One of the must-read 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 . . . Adébáyò'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 Adébáyò 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        

‘This tale of a Nigerian couple under familial pressure to conceive is a subtle and unsentimental triumph . . . A tale of real complexity and humanity, part psychological observation and social study’
Financial Times        

‘The joy of the best books is that they cosy up the epic with the mundane. Great writing allows our minds to do what neuroscientists tell us they are physiologically set up to do: to travel across time and space, and to imagine ourselves in the hands and hearts of others. Stay With Me does this to the power of x . . . Captivating’
Daily Express        

‘A decades-long, emotionally ricocheting account of what it means to lose not only multiple children, but also one's self-worth and sanity, and how those experiences differ for women and men in a deeply traditional community . . . Stay With Me feels like a genre unto itself – a story that illustrates the necessity of hope and equality, but one that doesn't water down the challenges of realising them’
Vogue        

‘Beautiful and resonant . . . I was entranced’
Grazia        

‘Ayòbámi Adébáyò's enthralling debut strikes deep, dark and true . . . it touches the emotions through its realistic portrayal of hope, sorrow and all too human weakness’
Herald