Home Fire

_______________WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES_______________ 'The book for our times' - Judges of the Women's Prize 'Powerful ... a new home for the old story ... what I think you can truly call a contemporary classic' - Ali Smith 'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' - Guardian'Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century' - New York Times_______________For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition. After a youth spent raising her twin siblings, Isma is fulfilling a long-deferred dream of studying in America. Yet can we ever truly escape what we leave behind? Beset by worry for her captivating, headstrong sister Aneeka and their brother entangled in their deceased father's jihadist history, the indelible scars of Isma's past remain. Eamonn, the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, complicates the sisters' lives further. Does he offer her refuge in the form of love? Can he be the means of Parvaiz's salvation? Based on Sophocles' classic tragedy Antigone, Home Fire is a story of personal aspiration and family duty, of love in conflict with politics, and the inescapability of bitter history. _______________NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017