This debut is a warm, if familiar, story about immigration and friendship in mid-20th century Britain
mmigration takes guts. It’s hard to leave your home and everything you know, never mind the physical and bureaucratic obstacles, or having to learn a different language; never mind facing racism, hostility and violence. Never mind how difficult it must have been for the people described in’s debut novel, Hashim & Family, people who left behind the Indian subcontinent in the 1950s and 1960s for the rain and cold of Britain.
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