# What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain

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- Libro: [What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain](https://www.archivodelibros.es/colin-grant/en/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain) ([What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/colin-grant/en/what-we-leave-we-carry-voices-of-migration-to-britain.md))
- Autores: [Colin Grant](https://www.archivodelibros.es/colin-grant)
- Editorial: jonathan_cape
- ISBN: 978-17-8733-316-1
- Páginas: 336
- Publicación: 2026-06-04
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Hardcover

## Descripción

'A beautiful tapestry... Uplifting' Bernardine Evaristo What 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. Colin 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. Candid, 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. PRAISE 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