Determination

A compassionate, beautifully told portrait populated by lives that circle the UK's lamentable immigration story. This is a story of determination, also grief, hope, loss and desperation, as well as a reminder of the care, patience and kindness at the human end of a broken systemGuy Gunaratne, author of IN OUR MAD AND FURIOUS CITY and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize.

Tawseef Khan dramatises timely quests for migrant justice amid the grinding frustrations and punitive hypocrisy of the modern British state. Resisting stereotypes and easy moralising, this is absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critiqueTom Benn, author of OXEBLOOD and winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award

Determination is a hymn to empathy, alive with care and love . . . This is a novel not just to spend time with for the joy of the richly detailed world Khan has created but to be enlivened and challenged by. Embedded in his compelling and compassionate novel is an emphatic rebuttal to the racism and xenophobia rife in this countryRebecca Watson, author of LITTLE SCRATCH

A heart-breaking, honest, and deeply important story, providing a window into the world of a UK immigration lawyer and the lives touched by her work. This is a moving, immersive, and vital piece of fictionJyoti Patel, author of THE THINGS THAT WE LOST and winner of the Merky Books New Writers Prize