Promoting one’s own work is inherently uncomfortable, even for a barrister versed in the art of the humblebrag. But seeing the most unspeakable abuses in my novel play out in real life has made me keener to shout about it.  From the undercover exposé of abuse inside Brook House Immigration Removal Centre to the UK’s unlawful Rwanda policy, for years every immigration story that broke seemed to mirror my plot in some way. Each time, I felt obliged to revise my manuscript to ma

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