Alan Reynolds 

Alan Reynolds discusses his first novel, Flying with Kites with Rest and Recreation host Michael Millward. Flying with Kites is an extensively researched novel about the experience of two mothers who are forced to flee their homeland in Kosova during the Balkan war of the late 1990s.In Flying with Kites Alan describes how news reports of the conflict inspired him to find out more about life in a war zone and the experience of both being a refugee and a member of the community that hosts the refugee. The accuracy of that research has resulted in Alan being welcomed by the refugee community at several major Kosovan community events in the United Kingdom.