A note to the reader: Review originally published on Goodreads, 8th of December, 2015.
Hinterland by Caroline Brothers is an emotionally gut-wrenching story about two young brothers fleeing their home in Iran to travel to England by any means necessary and if I say much more I’ll spoil the story. What is important about this book and why it matters is that it tells us, without compromise and without allowing any preparation on our part, the absolute worst situations for refugees. It is about dark, realistic struggles but above all it is a book that needed to have been written in light of the last few years.
It is only right that we have a moral obligation to read Hinterland.
