My Once Upon A Time - Tapa blanda

...sings with reality. Adebayo has written an important novel. His fable tells some very real, untold stories (SUNDAY EXPRESS)

...keeps surprising, never easily giving up its answers or letting the reader settle... In the end you're in another country amd with the Gods (TIME OUT)

Diran Adebayo confirms his promise as a writer of vibrant originality...This is a book that sings: its prose a giddy mixture of English and patois, Runyonesque flights of descriptive fancy and the musical cadences of street-sland, is by turns rhapsodic, exhilarating & poignant. Adebayo is a real find and MY ONCE UPON A TIME a magical fairy-tale for our times (TELEGRAPH)

not so much a novel subverting a tired genre as one that turns it on its head...his greatest asset, beyond his clinical obervational skills, is a prose style built around the rhythms of black speech and music. MY ONCE UPON A TIME refines the style further, (THE TIMES)