No Land to Light On

<p><b>Longlisted for the 2022 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize</b><br><br><b>''Tense, lyrical, intelligent'' - <i>The Big Issue</i></b><br><br><b>''A heart-wrenching </b><b>human story'' - <i>Saga</i></b><b><i><br><br>Exit West</i></b><b> meets <i>An American Marriage </i>in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future...when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son''s birth.</b><br><br>Boston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip to Jordan to bury his father, he is stopped at border control - a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted - while she awaits him on the other side. <br><br>Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they''d dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion? <br><br>Achingly