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'A moving, authentic, humane novel which raises fundamental questions about what it means to be kind in an unkind world' Guardian<BR>____________________________________________<BR><BR>The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. <BR><BR>At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need.

Welsh nineteen-year-old Nia, haunted by her troubled past, is running from her family. Shan, having fled the Sri Lankan civil war, is desperate to find his.<BR><BR>But when Tuli's guidance leads them all into dangerous territory, and the extent of his mysterious operation unravels, each is faced with an impossible moral choice.<BR><BR>In a world where the law is against you, how far would you be willing to lie for a chance to live? <BR>____________________________________________<BR><BR><BR>'Intelligent and heart-piercing - an exceptional novel about the Britain we live in, even if we choose not to see it' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire<BR><BR>'Asks tough questions about the nature of goodness in an unfair society' Sunday Telegraph BOOK OF THE WEEK<BR><BR>'Lively, poetically written and above all compassionate' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'A female lead who isn't defined by a romantic story arc?

Yes please. Lalwani's serious, ravishing way of writing about the secret life of Britain is just what we need' Times

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