Bøker av Katharine Quarmby

SALES POINTS Katharine Quarmby is an award-winning investigative journalist focusing on marginalised groups in society. Her writing appears frequently in leading publications from The Times to the Atlantic{::}, and she is a regular guest on radio and television programmes from Women's Hour to Channel 4 News.She will be available for events and press around publication.The novel is based on real figures and events that the author discovered though research in historical records.For fans of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue and The Foundling by Stacey Halls.

The shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a homeThey are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to settle down but then, as Occupy was taking over Wall Street and London, the vocal Dale Farm community in Essex was evicted from their land. Many did not leave quietly; they put up a legal and at times physical fight. Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby takes us into the heat of the battle, following the Sheridan, McCarthy, Burton and Townsley families before and after the eviction, from Dale Farm to Meriden and other trouble spots. Based on exclusive access over the course of seven years and rich historical research, No Place to Call Home is a stunning narrative of long-sought justice.