Author: Nadia Hashimi

While I read the book, I had to keep reminding myself that this was a novel, not a memoir. Written from the perspective of a widowed mother fleeing Afghanistan (for England) with her three young children I couldn’t help but imagine that this might have been the story of many refugees. The second narrator in the story is her eldest son who is arrested while out finding food for his family. He is detained, and sent back to Iraq from where he must start his long journey to England all over again.