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978-0008775865

Go Home Birdie Brown

Go Home Birdie Brown

by Laura Blake

Publisher HarperCollins

Genre: General Fiction

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About the book

Birdie has come too far to go quietly …

A powerful and emotional novel inspired by the Windrush Scandal.

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?

'A self-assured debut …A wonderful story of family, community, and the importance of recognising people instead of categories.' Louise Hare author of This Lovely City

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About the Author

Laura Blake

Laura Blake is a Birmingham-based writer and editor of British and Jamaican heritage, and her 2021 short story, ‘Home is not Here’, which provided the foundation forHomebird, was shortlisted for the 4th Estate and Guardian 4th Write Short Story Prize.

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