Home Fire

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES

For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally resuming her dream of 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, the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz s salvation? Two families fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks- what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

Based on Sophocles classic tragedy Antigone, Home Fire is a story of personal aspiration and family duty, of love in conflict with politics, and the inescapability of bitter history.

The book for our times - Judges of the Women s Prize

Powerful .. a new home for the old story .. what I think you can truly call a contemporary classic - Ali Smith

'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the modern world' - Guardian

'Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I ve read in a novel this century' - New York Times