Testimony, poetry, fiction, essays and drama on the subject of seeking and losing home and self, by women writers in and/or of Wales. The 40 contributors include many of the best known women poets and novelists of contemporary Wales, while about half of them are women refugees / asylum seekers from more than a dozen countries. They reveal some of the traumas that led them to flee their home countries - and the further traumas that in many cases awaited them here in the UK.

Divided into 5 sections - Home and Homelessless - Looking Back, Looking Forward - Travelling and Arriving - Struggle - From Silence to Voice - and each section organised alphatically by the writers' first names, the book presents sharp-edged shards of discordant experience, not attempting to cover up the gulf between natives and newcomers, or between comfortably-off westerners and the persecuted who seek protection on these shores, but opening up space fôr new dialogues between women who do, after all, share many basic concerns about safety, identity, and responsibility for others.