When We Were Birds

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Mesmerising, mythic and timeless - the most unmissable debut novel of 2022 - for fans of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arudnhati Roy and Susanna ClarkeDiscover a love story and a ghost story set in the lush landscape and thriving backstreets of modern-day Trinidad...Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets.Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: the power to talk to the departed. The women of Yejide's family are human but also not - descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead.Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of Port Angeles, where trouble is brewing...Rich with magic and wisdom, this hypnotic debut is a masterpiece of rhythm, wit, exuberance and heart. Ayanna Gillian Lloyd weaves a story of loss in cycle with renewal, and darkness in balance with light. When We Were Birds is a triumphant reckoning with a grief that runs back generations and a defiant, joyful affirmation of hope.