From the back:

"A richly imagined tale of one woman's search for love and belonging.

In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As refugees from Ethiopia gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she once had there and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover.

Back in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, the young Lilly, born in the 1950s to British parents, orphaned and full of religious conviction, finds herself living in the city of Harar. She is drawn to the idealistic young doctor, Aziz, himself an outsider in the community. But then convulsions of a new revolutionary order separate them, sending Lilly to England she has never seen, while Aziz disappears."

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Snapped this at a sale in the Academic Bookstore in Helsinki.

This book wanted to come home with me. Who am I to stop it? Thank you for your company and this book.

I don't know what to do with this one. It has a beautiful title and many journal entries praise the book and the story is intriguing but when I try to read it just feels like an effort and I don't want to force myself. I mark this available.

The book finds a new home, I give it to Soozreader who was interested in it.

Thank you very much for this book!:)