{"product_id":"what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain","title":"What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eFascinating conversations about migration to Britain, giving voice to communities who have collectively shaped, complicated and enriched our culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandid, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A beautiful tapestry... Uplifting' Bernardine Evaristo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR HOMECOMING by COLIN GRANT-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Oral history at its finest' Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e'Prickles with beautiful, comic and brutal details' Observer\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary and compelling book' Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e'Utterly fascinating' New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e'A hopeful, angry, tear-jerking read' Grazia\u003cbr\u003e'Essential reading' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59783990903118,"sku":"9781787333161","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/6775\/7390\/files\/9781787333161.jpg?v=1780319525","url":"https:\/\/intothewest.co.uk\/products\/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain","provider":"Into the West Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}