This is Home

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In Glasgow and London, This is Home moves through the hidden corners of city life, where dreams simmer in kitchen sinks and friendships take root in the cracks of hardship. A multicultural cast of workers, immigrants and dreamers navigates hard jobs, post Brexit identity, and the bittersweet pull of belonging.

At its centre are four young people, Brazilian, Ghanaian, Italian and Latvian, each carrying their own language and culture into a new country that asks them to change. The book holds the interplay between keeping what is native and learning what is necessary, finding humour and playfulness even when the ground feels uncertain.

Told in a fragmented structure, the story builds a sense of fate and possibility, tracing the ways separate lives brush up against one another. Home, here, is not a fixed place, but something made and remade in ordinary rooms, through chance encounters and the quiet work of staying.