Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad - Bee Rowlatt
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad - Bee Rowlatt Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets…
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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad - Bee Rowlatt
Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English.
They should have nothing in common. Bee, on the other hand, is a London mum of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age.
"Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears. And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes and the secrets, they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad...
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