![]() ![]() The second incident was a news story that came to his attention. And I knew I had to show the unexpected humour of these refugees wherever I could." I knew I had to write about it, because it's such a dirty secret. ![]() ![]() Some of them were beautiful characters and it was deeply upsetting to see how we were treating them. "I got talking with asylum seekers who'd been through hell and were likely to be sent back to hell. "The conditions in there were very distressing," he writes. Cleave worked in the canteen of a refugee detention center while on summer break from university, and was amazed to find that he'd been living within ten miles of the place for years without knowing of its existence. In interviews and on his web site, Cleave cites two events that inspired him to write a novel about refugees in the UK. Chris Cleave's Inspiration for Little Bee ![]()
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