Carlo moves from his Italian hometown to London and begins life anew as a kitchen porter in an underground mice-infested kitchen. His coworker, Keto, a 40-year-old Ghanaian has quit his job many times but always returns, as if magnetised by the pot-wash.

Carlo searches for answers with his older housemate Marrok, but Marrok is struggling to cope with memories of past tragedy as death is haunting him.

400 miles north Brazilian au-pair Brunilda arrives in Glasgow where everything is wee or grand and she’s a hen. Cultured-shocked by accents, sideways rain and food habits, her heart divided between the comfort of her family in Belo Horizonte and a new life in Scotland, she finds an ally in Kamila, a young Polish illustrator, with whom the line between friendship and love begin to blur.

This is Home is a constantly changing exploration of friendship, belonging and what it means to forge your place in the world far away from home.

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Luca Serra's debut novel This is Home unearths the hidden corners of city life, where dreams simmer in kitchen sinks and friendships bloom in the cracks of hardship.

A multicultural cast of workers, immigrants, and dreamers in Glasgow and London navigate hard jobs, post-Brexit identity, and the bittersweet search for home.

Four young people, a Brazilian, a Ghanaian, an Italian and Russian navigate the complexities of identity and belonging in a new country.

Luca Serra is a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award awardee and this is his first novel.