![]() ![]() It wasn’t that she felt under pressure, she says, but after working for a publisher in Lagos, “you know what’s good and what’s not. Relaxing on a sofa in her bright yellow jumpsuit, sheepskin boots and green braids, her smile never far from a laugh, it’s hard to imagine Braithwaite paralysed by doubt. “So I let a year go by where I kept convincing myself I was going to write something fantastic, and I couldn’t.” “That was very exciting for me, but I didn’t have anything that I wanted to give them,” Braithwaite recalls. ![]() The agent Clare Alexander saw the Nigerian author’s submission and asked her if she had anything else. The block had descended after her short story The Driver was shortlisted for the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story prize. ![]()
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