Home Fire

Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother"s death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can"t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who"s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.
Then Eamonn enters the sisters" lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs. As the son of a powerful British Muslim politician, Eamonn has his own birthright to live up to - or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz"s salvation? Two families" fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined in this searing novel that asks: what sacrifices will we make in the name of love?
A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles" Antigone, Home Fire is an urgent, fiercely compelling story of loyalties torn apart when love and politics collide - confirming Kamila Shamsie as a master storyteller of our times.