The Year of the Runaways

'Sahota knows how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night. A brilliant and beautiful novel' GuardianTochi, Avtar and Randeep have fled India for a new home in England, where, bound by secrets, haunted by history, and in pursuit of hope, they try to find a toehold in a country that seems utterly foreign. Tochi and Avtar have no real papers, but Randeep is the lucky one, married to Narinder, his visa-wife living on the other side of town. She has her own reasons for trying to help him. But what price have they paid for their dreams?'So rich, so absorbing . . . Characters you grow to love and truly care for. You cry because you just don't want this book to end' Spectator'Should be compulsory reading. A magnificent achievement' Daily Mail'A rich, intricate, beautifully written novel, bursting and seething with energy' The Times'Nothing short of an asteroid impact would have made me put the book down'Irish Times