A short story about emigration, backstory and new beginnings by Kit de Waal. Read by Burt Caesar.

"I met my father in 1969 when I was ten, I don't mean we were estranged; he lived with us, I saw him every day. But one evening, at the kitchen table, while he polished his heavy winter boots, he started talking about coming to England and the day he got off the boat and I saw then he had a life that stretched back before I was born. So that's how I met him and this is what he told me..."

Kit de Waal's debut novel, My Name is Leon, is a Times and international best seller, and was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award. She was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and Kittian father and worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law

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