A State of Freedom - Signed & Dated Gemma Malley After the bounding brilliance of

After the bounding brilliance of mole clowns

Queen Victoria's hero General Gordon is under siege

Nineteen hours later

dangerous and disaffected

this investigation into Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the worlds favourite fictional detective

A State of Freedom - Signed & Dated Gemma Malley After the bounding brilliance ofWhat happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into? A State of Freedom prises open the central, defining events of our century displacement and migration but not as you imagine them. Five characters, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in