Stay With Me

<p><b>Ayòbámi Adébàyò</b> was born in Lagos Nigeria. Her debut novel <i>Stay With Me</i> won the 9mobile Prize for Literature was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction the Wellcome Book Prize and the Kwani? Manuscript Prize. It has been translated into twenty languages and the French translation was awarded the Prix Les Afriques. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award <i>Stay With Me</i> was a <i>New York Times</i> <i>Guardian</i> <i>Chicago Tribune</i> and <i>NPR</i> Best Book of the Year. Ayòbámi Adébàyò splits her time between Norwich and Lagos.<br><br>ayobamiadebayo.com | @ayobamiadebayo</p> <p><b>WINNER OF THE 9MOBILE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE<br></b><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE<br></b><br>Yejide is hoping for a miracle for a child. It is all her husband wants all her mother-in-law wants and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife it is too much for Yejide to bear. <br><br> Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria <i>Stay With Me</i> is a story of the fragility of married love the undoing of family the power of grief and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak.</p> <b>Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Prize t</b><b>his Nigerian debut </b><b>is the heartbreaking tale of what wanting a child can do to a person a marriage and a family</b> Scorching gripping ultimately lovely A must read 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 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 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 One of the must-reads books of the year so far: <i>Stay With Me </i>has it all including big themes of love grief and jealousy a fantastic female protagonist plus it reads like a page-turning thriller Affecting and powerful . . . Adebayo's prose is a pleasure: immediate unpretentious and flecked with whip-smart Nigerian-English dialogue This deeply impressive novel of infertility loneliness and longing is the first by the hotly-tipped Adebayo and it packs a tremendous punch This confident and fearless writer challenges us to think about marriage from all perspectives in her first novel . . . <i>Stay With Me</i> 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 This impressive debut creates in deceptively simple prose a portrait of a marriage in crisis in a deeply patriarchal and oppressive society <p><b>WINNER OF THE 9MOBILE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><br><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE<br></b><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE<br></b><br>Yejide is hoping for a miracle for a child. It is all her husband wants all her mother-in-law wants and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife it is too much for Yejide to bear. <br><br> Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria <i>Stay With Me</i> is a story of the fragility of married love the undoing of family the power of grief and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about the desperate attempts we make to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak.</p>