What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to BritainColin GrantLabel: Jonathan CapeDescription: 'A beautiful tapestry... Uplifting' Bernardine EvaristoWhat 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
