When Guy Kennaway, 63, a white, middle class, overweight, English,
Tory-voting writer met Hussein Sharif, 22, an African-born, inner city,
Tory-hating Muslim, they assumed they had little in common. But newly
related by marriage, they decided to go on a walk through Britain to get
to know each other. Guy's mission was to explain to Hussein how
wonderful British life and culture was, and Hussein's was to describe to
Guy the realities of life as a young black Muslim in Britain in 2019.
Over a forty-mile hike they made friends, fell out, told stories,
encountered strangers, argued, laughed and got very sore feet. Held up
by COVID-19 and dramatically diverted by BLM, they reached the end of
their walk together, but for both of them it marked the start of a new
and more important journey.