Episode 1

Isma was going to miss her flight.

She had expected the interrogation, had practised for it, but not the hours of waiting beforehand, or the humiliation.

Home Fire is about identity, conflicting loyalties, love and politics: a book for our times.

Isma and Aneeka must keep a secret about their younger brother for their own protection and his.

This breathtakingly topical, powerful thriller by Kamila Shamsie won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction and was Book of the Year for all the major UK Newspapers.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Sara Davies.

Read by Lisa Zahra and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2019.