The Room That Did Not Answer

A powerful literary novel about motherhood, displacement, bureaucracy, poverty and the quiet labour of surviving inside systems that record everything and answer nothing.

Amina Kande lives with her young son, Samuel, in a temporary Glasgow flat where the radiator fails, the phone battery runs low, and every letter seems to open another door into uncertainty.

She has learnt that survival depends on what can be carried: a child, a plastic folder of papers, a little phone credit, a food parcel, ...