The Sleepwalker

What's the love story that's killing Isaac Barnes?
Isaac Barnes is short on prospects. So when he's offered work trafficking Yvette, a Ukrainian woman, into London he agrees - and doesn't ask too many questions.
But the more involved he becomes, the closer he gets to Yvette, who reminds him of a woman he loved twenty years ago. And the more he discovers about the business he's mixed up in, the less he wants to know.
As the violence and suffering around him - and his complicity in it - becomes too stark to ignore, Isaac has to act. But is it too late to save Yvette and himself?
Set in the underbelly of contemporary London, The Sleepwalker is a powerful exploration of conflicted desires and how far we dare go for the ones we love.

"Dark and stylish, The Sleepwalker is a finely-cut narrative of the sadness and human dislocation that often lie beneath migrant underworlds. In writing about the lives of the young diaspora from east to west in post-Cold War Europe, Mark Tewfik has taken on one of the biggest hidden stories of our time, and done it with precision, compassion and a brave heart." Malcolm Knox