What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain

di Colin Grant (Autore)

Vintage Publishing, 2026

'A beautiful tapestry... Uplifting' Bernardine Evaristo What do we leave behind when we move to a new place – and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land? Here are the voices of people who have come to Britain to make a new life: a Czech-Roma lawyer in Reading, an Iranian taxi driver in Shropshire, a Sierra Leonean actor in Northampton, a Romanian police officer in Edinburgh. Colin Grant has travelled the country and listened to their stories – foundational tales of arriving in a new land, along with rarely spoken stories of love and loss. Together, these accounts ask questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration in twenty-first-century Britain. Candid, profoundly human, sometimes funny and always moving, What We Leave We Carry is a chance to listen to Britain – in all its richness and complexity. PRAISE FOR HOMECOMING by COLIN GRANT: 'Oral history at its finest' Daily Mail 'Prickles with beautiful, comic and brutal details' Observer 'An extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph 'Utterly fascinating' New Statesman 'A hopeful, angry, tear-jerking read' Grazia 'Essential reading' Guardian

• Autore: Colin Grant
• Editore: Vintage Publishing
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 242 x 163 mm
• Peso: 532 gr.
• EAN: 9781787333161

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