Salutation Road

<p><b><i>Salutation Road</i> by Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told, speculative literary debut about the everyday struggles of immigration, love and letting go of a past that never really existed. For fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid.</b><br><br>23-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, she does her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London. But she can&rsquo;t help but wonder if this is the life she really wants.<br><br>Until one morning, when she boards the bus to work in Greenwich, she finds herself transported to an alternate reality in present-day Mogadishu. There she encounters her double, Ubah &ndash; the woman she could have been had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War. And what follows will change both of their lives for ever . . .</p>