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Gemma Arterton reads Vesna Maric's account of coming to Britain as a 16-year-old asylum seeker, after fleeing the conflict in Bosnia in 1992.
Vesna and her sister try to forge a new life in the Lake District while their parents remain under fire in Bosnia.
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