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Ayobami Adebayo's stories have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, and one was highly commended in the 2009 Commonwealth short story competition. She holds BA and MA degrees in Literature in English from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. She also has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia where she was awarded an international bursary for Creative Writing. Ayobami has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Ledig House, Hedgebrook, Threads, Ebedi Hills and Ox-Bow.
STAY WITH ME- UK (Canongate, March 2017), Nigeria (Ouida Books, April 2017), US (Knopf, August 2017), KENYA (Kwani?, August 2017) is her debut novel. ...more

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	Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.31 avg rating — 267,101 ratings — published 1979 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating — 65,153 ratings — published 2017 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Spell of Good Things 3.78 avg rating — 6,875 ratings — published 2023 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know by Ore Agbaje-Williams (Editor), Nancy Adimora (Editor), Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spent Lives 3.92 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ayobami Adebayo 2 Books Collection Set 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weaverbird by Ayodele Arigbabu, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author), Unoma Nguemo Azuah 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Au temps des damnés et des bénis by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author), Virginie Buhl (translator) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stanna hos mig by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author), Odile Nunes (Narrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

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“Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

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“So love is like a test, but in what sense? To what end? Who was carrying out the test? But I think I did believe that love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us, refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

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“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

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“Perhaps this was what love was like after all- not the lurch of going over a humpback bridge, and not the incandescence of fireworks, just the quiet understanding that one should take a kind hand when it was offered, before all light was gone from the sky.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

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“There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

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“In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

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