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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad - The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship (Paperback)
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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad - The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship (Paperback)
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Loot Price R397
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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 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 . . . Bee Rowlatt
is a former show-girl turned BBC World Service journalist. A mother
of three and would-be do-gooder, she can find keeping her career
going while caring for her three daughters (and husband) pretty
tough, even in leafy North London. May Witwit is an Iraqi expert in
Chaucer and sender of emails depicting kittens in fancy dress. She
is prepared to face every hazard imaginable to make that
all-important hairdresser's appointment.
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