Meet Iraqi dissidents, a Chinese waitress who quits an abusive marriage, a Jewish emigré who falls in love with his aunt, childhood sweethearts who meet again as adults in exile, a 94-year-old London widow who’s just like Goldilocks, a couple of famous lesbian feminist professors… The stories are all true, but this is not journalism or oral history – more like literary fiction interspersed with atmospheric photographs, beautifully bound in a compact hardcover book.