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    Real Life in the UK: Reflections of an Immigrant Doctor

    By Sylvester and Helen Mujakperuo

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    About this ebook

    ‘So this is what a visa looks like!’
    Lara Kumbi, a young medical doctor finally has her dream of travelling to the UK fulfilled. With hopes and expectations of a better life in a country better than her own, she packs up her bags and relocates. On arriving in the UK, Lara quickly discovers that she has a new status. She is an ‘immigrant’. Will life in the UK be all that she has dreamt it would be?
    This is not simply one doctor’s story. It is every immigrant’s story. It is the untold reality of life in the UK. With issues ranging from finances to academics and unemployment to racial discrimination, from good days to bad days and back again, follow Lara as she recounts her experiences of the joys and pains of real life in today’s United Kingdom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSylvester and Helen Mujakperuo
    Release dateOct 5, 2013
    ISBN9789789357475
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    • 4/5
      Written in clear and candid language, with smooth flow of thought! It also really does justice to what could be the reality for many immigrants in the UK; in that sense, it was scary and heart breaking at many points. I would say I have picked a lot of great lessons from the book. It doesn't feel like a novel, really, more like the stories were real. Kudos to the authors.