Syria Girl

Elijah Hill

DFM Publishing · AI-narrated by Archie (from Google)

About this audiobook

Night falls for the three million Syrians waiting in refugee camps in Turkey. As they lie on rocky ground some of them dream of home, some of the day they'll be reunited with their families, and some, like Ayamin, are sick of dreaming.

Seventeen, on her own, and hungry for more, Ayamin packs her tent and sets off on foot across the Mediterranean and Europe in search of a place to call home.

But then she meets a hard-headed plot twist named Danny Frey.

Danny's a juvenile delinquent from England, sent to Turkey to help out at the camps. He doesn't like rules, and he doesn't like the idea of Ayamin taking on the whole of Europe on her own.

A kids' tent, two pairs of worn boots, a flipped boat, a storm of tear gas, a field of lavender, a sunrise train ride, an angry conductor, a guitar-playing hobo, a hemp loving Irishman, a chess-playing churchgoer, and the police forces of four countries make for one epic journey.

Ratings and reviews

really enjoyed this book, not the kind that I usually listen to but so pleased that I found it. Narration great and the story certainly got me thinking about things.

this book is the best book so far that I have read or listened to. The adventures and situations they went through tugged at my heart strings even shead a few tears and to know it was all true makes it even better ! "Awesome book ! !"

wow wot a story enjoy so much l could put it down

About the author

A journalist by trade, Elijah Hill has written hundreds of stories for many of New Zealand's media outlets including Stuff, NZ Herald, and Newstalk ZB as well as regional papers such as Wairarapa Times-Age, the Waikato Times, and the Matamata Chronicle. 

Elijah wrote and directed the mockumentary feature film 'Two Idiots and a Tin Whistle' which premiered in 2021.