Modern Europe is a melting pot of migrating souls, flowing in every direction and for every reason you could imagine. Among them are a young Nigerian academic and his American wife, a trans film student, a doctor fleeing the war in Libya, a young woman seeking her brother’s murderer, and a Somali shopkeeper fighting for his daughter’s freedom. The lines between their lives may seem clearly drawn: the fortunate and the unfortunate, the tourist and the refugee, the protected and the powerless. But fate can turn the tables in an instant…

‘Unforgettable. Helon Habila writes with insight and searing compassion’ MADELEINE THIEN