
An immigrant woman’s journey of finding safety, identity and belonging in an unexpected home.
What does it mean to belong somewhere you weren’t born? How does it feel to have the context of your life – your memories and experiences – stretched across two countries separated by thousands of miles of sky? How does it feel to know you will be asked – again, and again, and again – where are you from? And the answer can never be – from here.
I’ve been trying to answer these questions since January 2017, when I landed in Britain as a tourist first, and then an immigrant. And how Britain, slowly, in its charming, rain-soaked way, became home.
These letters are my attempt to make sense of this incredible journey – and celebrate it.



I am an immigrant. It’s not an easy label to wear and embrace. Especially today when people are able to…

Let me take you somewhere today, dear Britain. Somewhere far from your green hills, grassy moors and grey skies. To…

It is late January 2017, and I am in the back of a cab on a motorway I do not…
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