Katrin, a young Polish woman who moved to London before austerity reigned, is working long hours at the Epicure Café in order to earn enough money to bring her mother over as well. In the café she falls in love with a lecturer in film studies -- but Robin comes with a past that will complicate any future they have together. As droves of once-hopeful Polish emigres return home, Katrin finds her life growing more difficult, especially when her boss in the café starts picking on her. Determined to keep the freedom she’s found in England, Katrin finds the costs of her new-found liberty are mounting up.

Tessa McWatt is the author of five novels and a novella for young adults. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General Awards of Canada. Her most recent novel, Vital Signs, was nominated for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She lives in London.

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