SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS DISCOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

''This is an important book. Everyone should read it'' - Elizabeth Laird, award-winning author of Welcome to Nowhere
''Wrenching and lyrical'' - Samira Ahmed, New York Times bestselling author of Internment
''Hauntingly beautiful ... a must read'' - Huda Fahmy, author of Huda F Are You

A year ago, before the revolution, Salama watched her brother marry her best friend, Layla, and wondered when her own love story might begin. Now she works at the hospital – helping those she can, closing the eyes of those she can’t. Layla and her unborn baby are all Salama has left.

Unless you count Khawf. But he’s a hallucination; a symptom of the horrors she’s seen. Every day he urges Salama to leave. Every day she refuses.

Until she crosses paths with Kenan, the boy with the vivid green eyes, who wants to stay and risk his life for everything Syria could be …