The summer of 1939 broke the Maudsley family. Cecily was only thirteen years-old and desperate to...

Drawing on Tearne's background, and experience of loss - she left Sri Lanka for the UK with her f...

Modelled on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', the stories of people who have sought asylum in the UK ...

A permanently frozen London is the setting for this harrowing yet lyrical tale of survival in a d...

Set adrift by the recent death of his wife, Theo Samarajeeva abandons his comfortable writer's li...

Having left Sri Lanka on the brink of civil war, young Alice was raised in England. 30 years late...

Ceylan, 1973. Alice, 9 ans, aime par-dessus tout etre a Sea House, la maison de ses grands-parent...

¿Every act has a past. Events don't just materialise from nowhere.' Ras is a former attendant at ...

Set against the backdrop of WWII, a gripping drama of dark family secrets in rural England from t...

A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and V...

An epic novel of love, loss and a family uprooted, set in the contrasting landscapes of war-torn ...

Probing loss and memory amid violence and displacement . . . Tearne deftly reveals the corrosive ...