Nicky Birch
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487 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Nicky Birch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There are miserable moments in it.
Don't worry, guys.
And we'll play you a clip of a bit of that, so don't worry.
But it's probably your more, you know, it's one of those books that follows the lives of two families in Nigeria and from opposite sides of the tracks.
And eventually it's how their lives intersect towards the end in sort of a melodramatic way.
So that's kind of more your traditional family saga, two families from different places.
And it's what you might say a gripping read in that kind of thing.
Although gripping sometimes because I actually listened to it rather than read it.
And going back to what you said about Sebastian, this is a very different kind of listening experience.
And I think it's interesting because it's a Nigerian author, very much set in a sort of fictitious Nigerian town.
I think, you know, there's different languages in Nigeria.
This is Yoruba.
And it's very Nigerian.
And in a way that I say that as in sometimes they're sort of anglicised or Americanised.
This is very much, there's lots of colloquial expressions, food, some pidgin English, lots of Yoruba dialect and lots of crucially naming conventions, right, around how you refer to people.
When they're married, you refer to them as differently or when they're, if you're looking up to somebody, you refer to somebody as different names.
And that's the same people being referred to differently
in the book depending on who's talking about them and I think that listening I found that sometimes quite hard to follow but I think maybe reading that might be easier to understand because you can kind of go back and think what was that but listening you don't tend to rewind so much so I just think it's a different experience Does Adebayo read it herself?
No.
No, she doesn't read it herself.
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