Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship

✍ Scribed by Rowlatt, Bee; Witwit, May

• Book ID: 109244540
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 321 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141934723

✦ Synopsis

A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends . . . Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit is a touching and poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship.

Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry?

May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. 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. 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.

They should have nothing in common.

But when a...