“How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep that a secret? This book is how.”
“He’s not a copper who happens to be a man. He’s a man who happens to be a copper, and he carries that weight with him everywhere he goes.”
“Our sense of home explored through the story of a journalist’s friendship with a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor… It is a cliché to describe a book as achingly beautiful, but those are the words I reach for: Homelands is both beautiful and, at times, left me with an ache I struggled to name.”
Aamna Mohdin
Guardian
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Amy Liptrot has been interviewed in the Guardian ahead of publication of her new book The Instant. You can also read an extract from the book.
Guardian
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