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Choose Love

byChoose Love, Inua Ellams (Edited by)

10 Writers and Refugees on Kindness in Contemporary Britain

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'A beautiful, moving and deeply important book' OLIVIA COLMAN
'Extraordinary' DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE
'Essential' CAROLINE LUCAS
'Hopeful and enlightening' CECILE PIN

Ten extraordinary stories from asylum seekers and refugees
Told to ten acclaimed writers
One powerful testament to what happens when we choose love

Across the globe, more than 117 million people have been forced from their homes by conflict and crisis. Behind that vast number are individual lives: families uprooted, futures interrupted, journeys of unimaginable courage. In a time of hardening borders and deepening division, the charity Choose Love was founded to support and provide humanitarian aid to those in need.

In this powerful anthology, ten acclaimed writers are paired with ten people who have experienced displacement and the UK asylum system, working together to tell stories of resilience, humanity and hope. From unexpected friendships to life-changing encounters, these pieces explore the pivotal moments when love was transformed into action – when it became shelter, solidarity, courage and friendship.

Tender, urgent and profoundly humane, this book reveals the extraordinary force of ordinary kindness. It is a testament to the enduring human spirit and a call to recognise one another not as strangers, but as neighbours.

Choose Love features work by Yomi Adegoke, Inua Ellams, Guy Gunaratne, Sabrina Mahfouz, Dawn O’Porter, Bohdan Piasecki, Max Porter, Monika Radojevic, Nikesh Shukla and Tania Tay.

This is a beautiful, moving and deeply important book. It asks us to look at one another with compassion and to remember that choosing love isn't an abstract idea – it's something we do, every day, in the way we treat each other. Read it, share it and let it stay with you.

Olivia Colman

About Choose Love

Choose Love supports displaced people around the world. From a hot meal to community support for vulnerable groups, they work with grassroots organisations to make sure that people who’ve been displaced from their homes have what they need.

Inua Ellams is an award-winning poet, playwright and curator. Identity, displacement and destiny are reoccurring themes in his work in which he mixes the old with the new, traditional with the contemporary.
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  • Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • ISBN: 9781529155242
  • Length: 288 pages
  • Price: £14.99
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