Reviews
Reviewed in short: New books by Anna Della Subin, Roopa Farooki, Mark Hodkinson and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, The New Statesman, March 2022
When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties, The New York Times, March 2022
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a deeply satisfying debut, The Observer, March 2022
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a love letter to Trinidad, Guardian Books, March, 2022
Love and other demons in “When We Were Birds”, The Economist, Feb 19 2022
A seductive, pleasurable experience, Irish Times, Feb, 2022
A tale of ancestral myths, love and working with the dead - Independent.ie, Feb, 2022
Publishers Weekly, Jan 2022
Kirkus, Jan 2022
When We Were Birds is a wonderfully realised debut set in a mystical Caribbean, Life+Arts, Business Post, 30 Jan 2022