Alem is on holiday with his father for a few days in London. He has never been out of Ethiopia before & is very excited. They have a great few days togther until one morning when Alem wakes up in the bed & breakfast they are staying at to find the unthinkable. His father has left him. It is only when the owner of the bed & breakfast hands him a letter that Alem is given an explanation. Alem's father admits that because of the political problems in Ethiopia both he & Alem's mother felt Alem would be safer in London
- even though it is breaking their hearts to do this. Alem is now on his own in the hands of the social services & the Refugee Council. He lives from letter to letter waiting to hear from his father & in particular about his mother who has now gone missing...A powerful gripping new novel from the popular Benjamin Zephaniah