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Hardback · HarperCollins · First edition · First printing
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ISBN 9780008775865
History (2 events)
Last confirmed 9 Sept 2026
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Written by Laura Blake
Birdie has come too far to go quietly ... A powerful and emotional novel inspired by the Windrush Scandal, for fans of All My Mothers by Joanna Glen and Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez This is a story about being told you don't belong. This is a story about knowing you do.
This is a story about Birdie. Birdie Brown's life is held together by family -- her sharp-witted daughter Carmen, her son Scott who no one mentions, and five grandkids who keep her on her toes. Retirement is bingo nights, babysitting, and TV with her granddaughter Saffie -- until a letter from the Home Office arrives.
It says she's here illegally. That she must return to Jamaica -- a country she hasn't seen since childhood. As the system threatens to erase her, Birdie must confront buried truths and fractured ties.
Can she hold on to the life she built -- and the family that built her?
Goldsboro Books
Hardback · HarperCollins · First edition · First printing
First Edition, First Printing, Signed
ISBN 9780008775865
Last confirmed 9 Sept 2026
View at Goldsboro Books