{"product_id":"9781787333161","title":"What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Colin Grant\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 June 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e242 x 164 x 31mm | 536g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003ePRAISE 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colin Grant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65544651276637,"sku":"9781787333161","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781787333161.jpg?v=1786451600","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781787333161","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}