Home Fire Kamila Shamsie

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD AND NEW YORK TIMES 'Occasionally you know that one of the writers alive at the same time as you has written the book they were born to write … Home Fire has lit a light that'll never go out' Ali Smith, Guardian, Books of the Year'A timely rejoinder to all the cant and prejudice. An intelligent, thought-provoking and beautifully written novel about family, identity and divided loyalties' Mail on Sunday'Gripping ... Home Fire is a literary thriller about prejudice and the slide into radicalisation, but it is also an expansive novel about love' Financial TimesHow can love survive betrayal? For as long as they can remember, siblings Isma, Aneeka and Parvaiz have had nothing but each other. But darker, stronger forces will divide Parvaiz from his sisters and drive him to the other side of the world, as he sets out to fulfil the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.