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'Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation … It is bracing to encounter queer people reckoning so candidly with insecurities unique to their experience' TLS

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‘A radical, gorgeous second novel … Osunde’s bitter-bright prose is remarkable … Necessary Fiction is a queer love song, honouring chosen family’ Big Issue

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'Osunde’s writing and descriptions are both beautiful and, at times, visceral … this is prose worth spending time with' Marie Claire

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‘Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive. They love hard, fight fierce, and love fiercer’ Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

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'An electric exploration of queer life and desire across generations in Lagos’ Zezi Ifore in Vogue

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‘A glorious, ambitious portrait of queer lives in Nigeria. A vital work for our times’ Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch

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'Singular … In Necessary Fiction … we can glimpse the kind of community the internet once promised' The Atlantic

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‘Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful, Necessary Fiction finds in its host of characters the grace of found families and how they help outsiders survive’ NPR

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'Layered and digressive … both deeply earnest and unique'Vulture, ‘7 New Books You Should Read In July’

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‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond’ Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of The Terrible

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‘Osunde writes with the cataclysmic dazzle and sneaky spiritual ache of Denis Johnson, but pitches it toward us here in the digital age’ Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

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‘Exquisite and excruciating … With elegant, lean, searing language, Eloghosa Osunde reminds us what it really means to be alive’ Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes The Sun

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‘A homage to the chosen family who accept you as you are and support you on the journey to becoming who you want to be’ Dean Atta, author of I Can’t Even Think Straight

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