Born from a disgust at the decade-long surge of European far right politics and the ineffective centrism that paves its way, The Accidental Immigrants is a novel that urges us to reflect on our own complacency and sense of exceptionalism. In Jo’s own words it is a mini revolution between two covers, a record of her resistance and an exercising of her freedom to imagine.”

“In The Accidental Immigrants, the novelist Jo McMillan uses the very real bureaucracy of the UK home office to construct a story of two fictional lovers: Tess, a dual passport holder, whose lover, Arlo, has come from Britain to the fictional island of St Mira and now has no passport at all. When the island’s politics turn sharply against the British minority they are thrown into a desperate battle for survival and refuge. If the description sounds painfully didactic the book fortunately is anything but: it illuminates the process of border-crossing and makes one think freshly about your own place in the world without ever feeling like you have been tricked into a civics lecture.”
Stephen Bush