Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781526647696
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 ** CHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES **



'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' - Madeline Miller

'A shining tour de force' - Ali Smith, Guardian Summer Reading

'An intimate study of the ties that bind us' - Stylist

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A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction



Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people -



Maryam and Zahra.



In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.

Zahra and Maryam.



In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it - Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it