Edgware Road by Yasmin Cordery Khan HARDBACK 9781801107341

Name: Edgware Road by Yasmin Cordery Khan HARDBACK 9781801107341
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Edgware RoadAuthor(s): Yasmin Cordery Khan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Apollo\nISBN-13: 9781801107341, 978-1801107341\nSynopsis\nA wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. \n\n1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful wife and daughter. He's a world away from Karachi and the family he left behind.\n\nBut Khalid likes to gamble, and he likes to win. Twenty pounds on the fruit machine, fifty on a sure-thing horse, a thousand on an investment that seems certain to pay out. Now he's been offered a huge opportunity, a chance to get in early with a new bank, and it looks like he'll finally have his big win.\n\n2003. Alia Quraishi doesn't really remember her dad. After her parents' divorce she hardly saw him, and her mum refuses to talk about her charming ex-husband. So, when he died in whaz