Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin
Category: Novel
Narrator: Aoife Hinds
Tags: Novel, Contemporary, Adults, Historical Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION, An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through love, loss and unwavering hope., There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies everything in between is speculation., One night, not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived the voyage., Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home. They travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist of fate, they arrive in Thatchers Britain. Here they must somehow build new lives with only each other to turn to, but will that be enough in a place that doesnt seem to want them?, In this piercing debut, the siblings faltering journey is deftly interwoven
