First off, the author is actually my mother, so I'm not an impartial reviewer. I'm mentioned in the book a few times, and I also made the cover. The book was on GoodReads and not on StoryGraph, so I thought I'd add it and leave a review.

All of that said, I still think it's a poignant work about the nature of immigration (to the UK specifically, and in general). The author talks candidly and fluently about her own journey as an immigrant, navigating microaggressions, self-doubt, social isolation, and many more challenges immigrants will face in their attempts to seek a better life for themselves and their families. It's a work that inspires empathy, pride, and an appreciation for British culture from the point of view of someone discovering it for the first time. 

I'm incredibly proud of her for having written this book, and honored to have been a minor part of its creation. As an immigrant myself, first to the UK with her and now to Canada on my own, this book made me feel seen, in ways I didn't expect from a work that was, again, written by someone so close to me, someone that I thought had imparted all her wisdom onto me already.