The Books
The Closest thing to Flying
ISBN: 9780192749482
A young Eritrean refugee finding it hard to adjust to her precarious new life in the UK finds comfort in a diary she finds hidden in an old hat box written by a girl the same age as her over 100 years ago. When Samira discovers a diary written by Hen, a girl living over 100 years ago, she finds the friend she has been desperately seeking.