This is Home

<p>Carlo moves from his Italian hometown to London and begins life anew as a kitchen porter in an underground mice-infested kitchen. His coworker, Keto, a 40-year-old Ghanaian has quit his job many times but always returns, as if magnetised by the potwash.</p><p>Carlo searches for answers with his older and possibly less wise Lithuanian housemate Marrok, but Marrok is struggling to cope with memories of past tragedy as death is haunting him.</p><p>400 miles north Brazilian au-pair Brunilda arrives in Glasgow where everything is wee or grand and she’s a hen. Cultured-shocked by accents, sideways rain and food habits, her heart divided between the comfort of her family in Belo Horizonte and a new life in Scotland, she finds an ally in Kamila, a young Polish illustrator, with whom the line between friendship and love begin to blur.</p><p><strong>This is Home</strong> is a constantly changing exploration of friendship, belonging and what it means to forge your place in the world far away from home.</p><p>*</p><p>Luca Serra's debut novel <strong>This is Home</strong> unearths the hidden corners of city life, where dreams simmer in kitchen sinks and friendships bloom in the cracks of hardship.</p><p>A multicultural cast of workers, immigrants, and dreamers in Glasgow and London navigate hard jobs, post-Brexit identity, and the bittersweet search for home.</p><p>Four young people, a Brazilian, a Ghanaian, an Italian and Latvian navigate the complexities of identity and belonging in a new country.</p><p>Luca Serra is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award awardee and <strong>This Is Home</strong> is his first novel.</p>