Antigona and Me

xe2x80x98An absolutely wonderful bookxe2x80x99 - Deborah Moggach In a London street at the turn of the twenty-first century, two neighbours start to chat over the heads of their children. Kate Clanchy is a writer, privileged and sheltered. Antigona is a refugee from Kosovo. On instinct, Kate offers Antigona a job as a nanny, and Antigona accepts. Over the next five years and a thousand cups of coffee Antigona's extraordinary story slowly emerges. She has escaped from a war, she has divorced a violent husband, but can she escape the harsh code she was brought up with? At the kitchen table where anything can be said, the women discover they have everything, as well as nothing, in common.

Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. She has won a Forward Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award, the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature.