Never lend people money you can't afford to give them as a gift.
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.
To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.
I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song.
Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.
I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.
'Stay with Me' started out being very political, largely because I'm a little obsessed with politics.
I'm still startled when people ask me for writing advice.
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.
I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.
Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.
