Half a World Away by Mike Gayle | Goodreads

99 quot om Mike Gayle: 'For the rt of the day Hubert uldn't stop grng. He grned the lift on the way back down to the warehoe. He grned as he passed Mr Coulthard yellg at the new lads. And he grned all the more later when Kenh told him a very odd story about beg sent on a wild-goose chase to the fourth floor by a girl om Haberdashery.', 'Hubert tutted his disapproval and wonred how had taken him until now to make the nnectn between “the Eastern Europeans” certa newspapers loved to pla about and his own suatn all those years ago. It was the same story, only wh a different st of characters. People om one land g to another bee of the lack of opportuni their own, workg all the hours the sort of backbreakg jobs the nativ didn’t want to do. Day after day facg all manner of hostili, wonrg if they’d ma a mistake leavg home.', and 'It’s the bt feelg the world knowg there’s someone your rner. That no matter what and no matter how badly you ms up, they will always be on your si.'