SuitabookFinding home after migration
Leelu moves to London with her mother and brother while her father remains abroad, and she finds the new city difficult to inhabit.
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Polly Ho-Yen - Author
A thoughtful migration story combines everyday hardship with magical realism. Leelu’s loneliness, her brother’s difficulties and the family’s uncertainty make belonging feel complicated rather than instantly solved.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA thoughtful migration story combines everyday hardship with magical realism. Leelu’s loneliness, her brother’s difficulties and the family’s uncertainty make belonging feel complicated rather than instantly solved.
Leelu moves to London with her mother and brother while her father remains abroad, and she finds the new city difficult to inhabit.
Someone leaves natural objects as gifts, and Leelu discovers that they have special powers that may help her with city life.
Leelu’s mother works nights and is exhausted; Tiber struggles with choices; their father is far away and the family has limited resources.
The story includes separation from a parent, financial hardship, substandard housing, difficulty speaking at school, and an older sibling getting into trouble with a gang; some darker episodes may unsettle.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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