[3] After Brothers completed her doctorate she joined Reuters news agency where she was trained as a foreign correspondent and went on to report from locations across Latin America and Europe including Amsterdam, Belfast, Brussels, London, Mexico City and Paris.
[3] Working as a journalist in France, Brothers met Afghan refugees and her account of their life in temporary camps was published by The New York Times.
[5] Hinterland was published in 2012 and tells the story of two young Afghan brothers as they cross Europe trying to reach England.
[6] Hinterland has, since its publication, been adapted as the theatrical installation Flight, produced by the Glasgow-based theatre company Vox Motus at the Edinburgh International Festival and on locations in Ireland, the UAE and New York.
[7][8] In 2016 Brothers published her second novel, The Memory Stones, which tells the story of a family in Buenos Aires in 1976 during Argentina's Dirty War.