Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Book

'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.' Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life Yoruba father their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos where they attend the International School for Future Leaders. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel - only married woman can work there - and soon they have to quit their apartment in the Better Life Executive Homes development in Lagos to go and live with their maternal Muslim grandparents in a compound in the bush. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged cosmopolitan upbringing in Lagos. Tiny Sunbirds is told in Blessing's own beguiling voice. It is at times hilarious always poignant occasionally tragic and peopled with unforgettable characters.

Set in the Niger Delta Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-year-old Blessing and her family. Part comic part tragic it shows that some families can survive almost anything.