About me

I grew up in a house on the coast at Badagry that the sea has since taken most of the garden from, and I have been writing about weather, families and the places that keep us ever since.

After university I worked for six years as the night attendant at an old public swimming baths in Ibadan, which is where I wrote most of my first novel, The Salt Year, between two and five in the morning. It was shortlisted for the Ashcombe First Novel Prize. The baths closed in 2016, and I wrote Small Hours at the Baths to keep them open somewhere.

The Weather Indoors, my third novel, came out in 2025 and has been translated into nine languages. My fourth, Tidewrack, grew out of a year of walking the same beach every morning with a notebook, and is out on 3 June 2027.

I also write essays and journalism, mostly about place, swimming and reading, and I teach a workshop on writing weather a few times a year. I live in Ibadan with my partner, a lurcher called Moss and far too many single gloves.

I am represented by Priya Mendes at Calloway & Rook Literary, and published by Harrow Lane Books.