The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán by Mike Robbins

When Silvia’s country falls apart after a coup, she flees to London. Picked up by the police, she is dumped for weeks in a bed-and-breakfast, then rescued by cold intellectuals. She finds she is a nuisance to one side and a cause to the other - until she meets another, earlier, refugee; and then she has a surprise for everyone.