I would 100% recommend this book to young adults over the age of 14 because it is an amazing book that can make you understand more about life in England in the past and how young kids were affected and controlled by some people around them. So while I was engrossed by hundreds and thousands of books all in one place, my oldest daughter was in her own world as well. Moments later I am in handcuffs again, and leg irons, one of four men chained together, shuffling out a back door.

Until disaster strikes, and the family are forced to leave everything and escape to cold, rainy London. The abuses and agonies they had to receive from the whites (who claimed themselves their master) were unbearable. There is one other occupant in mine, a man who appears to be in his early thirties, wearing a ragged T-shirt and jeans. The Houses are a city within a city: nine acres, more than a thousand residents, and countless stories that never see the light of day.

The mass of brick towers feels as foreboding as ever—bad enough for me when I get pulled back for an extended residency every few years, but worse still for my mother, who remains as stuck to this place as the memories of my youth on the edge. And all because of this book, the style of writing is so engaging, painful at times because of how the story is so emotionally charged but always engaging. Between a Wolf and a Dog was shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize, and was awarded the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and the 2016 University of Queensland Fiction Book Award. Before I could really go to final on everything, some of the sketches had to be flushed out super tight and approved by the publisher. She wants to disrupt the narrative that paints people of colour and their experiences as ‘other’, instead placing children at the centre of stories that reflect their lived reality.

This is a story of loss, refuge, and hope in Christ that will be meaningful to both children and adults. He’s greeted in his new life by an assortment of acquaintances, Liam, who is white and struggling with depression; Maddie, a self-sacrificing white cheerleader with a heart of gold; and Aarti, his Indian-American love interest who offers connection. But their lives are hit by tragedy when the Native Land Husbandry Act in enforced by the brutal Deputy District Commissioner, Ian Watson. Far From Home is also published by HarperCollins as an unabridged audio book, read by Karina Fernandez.Robert's writing is simple but evocative, her connection with Zimbabwe is evident in the raw emotion of her story. I am overwhelmed by the urge to tell everyone what happened, to share the gory details of a life they can’t imagine. It really helps you understand the injustice done to Africans at the hands of the British (among many others).