The Cleaner, the Cat and the Space Station

There’s an alien space station orbiting the Earth, secretly protecting us from invasion. And it’s recruiting humans like you to train as fighter pilots.

Since leaving Ethiopia, Hanna Abebe has survived in London by working illegally as a cleaner. But her life unravels after a sexual assault; living rough, she loses the resulting pregnancy and very nearly her life. Salvation arrives and Hanna’s rescuers welcome her into an unusual new family: a school for recruits to the Shantivira, the secret space station which protects the Earth. Then Hanna uncovers a traitor in their midst . . .

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