Asylum Road

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'I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book' DAISY JOHNSON'As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged. But planning a wedding does little t o settle Anya's unease. As a child, she escaped from Sarajevo, and the idea of security is as alien now as it was then.When social convention forces Anya to return, she begins to change. The past she sought to contain for as long as she can remember resurfaces, and the hot summer builds to a startling climax. Lean, sly and unsettling, Asylum Road is about the many borders governing our lives: between men and women, assimilation and otherness, nations, families, order and chaos.What happens, and who do we become, when they break down? Show more