A moving contemporary novel from an outstanding writer.
Like most gypsies in Romania, Emilia's family is persecuted - to the point where the tenement where they live is burned down. They flee, hidden in a truck full of oranges, and arrive in Dover among thousands of other illegal immigrants. We have met Emilia before. She is the fascinating elusive girl who is the focus of 'Girl In Red' - the girl the narrator, Frankie, yearns for and never gets near.
'Pictures From The Fire' is not a sequel, but a mirror image to the first book, showing how this gifted girl adjusts to being in England, how she longs for the change to go to school and make a fresh start, and what happens to her.
