{"product_id":"9781787333161","title":"What We Leave We Carry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautiful tapestry... Uplifting' Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat do we leave behind when we move to a new place - and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCandid, profoundly human, sometimes funny and always moving, \u003ci\u003eWhat We Leave We Carry\u003c\/i\u003e is a chance to listen to Britain - in all its richness and complexity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eHOMECOMING \u003c\/i\u003eby COLIN GRANT:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Oral history at its finest' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Prickles with beautiful, comic and brutal details' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eAn extraordinary and compelling book' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eUtterly fascinating' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA hopeful, angry, tear-jerking read'\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eGrazia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Essential reading' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Cape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57242459570549,"sku":"9781787333161","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781787333161.jpg?v=1780392315","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9781787333161","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}