SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A TIMES, OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, AND i PAPER BEST BOOK OF 2025 'BRILLIANT' THE TIMES 'A WILDLY WITTY DEBUT' FINANCIAL TIMES'ELECTRIC' GUARDIAN A wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit...
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Book binding :Paperback
Preservation state :1. As New
Publication Date :14/11/2026
Year of edition :0
Authors :Nussaibah Younis
Number of pages :321
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
A TIMES, OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, AND i PAPER BEST BOOK OF 2025
'BRILLIANT' THE TIMES 'A WILDLY WITTY DEBUT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'ELECTRIC' GUARDIAN
A wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging. 'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?'
Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues.
Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen.
Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated, from a Muslim background, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for.
'Funny, gripping and compassionate' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Funny, dirty and scathing truthful' HANIF KUREISHI 'Stunned me, moved me, made me laugh out loud' PANDORA SYKES 'Essential reading' JONATHAN COE 'A breath of fresh air' MARIAN KEYES 'Original, funny and fearless' NINA STIBBE
WINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT BEST PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THECOMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS' AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE SKY ARTS BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR
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