Kamila Shamsie: Where I Write
Kamila Shamsie won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction with Home Fire. We caught up with her to ask about her...
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she resumes a dream long deferred – studying in America. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream – to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.
Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to – or defy. The fates of these two families are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
"The way you write is all about a tiny private space — each book propels you to try something different with the next one, each one has its own set of anxieties. "
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