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Product details
- ISBN 9781399623940
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
'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 THE COMEDY 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
Dr Nussaibah Younis is a peacebuilding practitioner and a globally recognised expert on contemporary Iraq. For several years, she advised the Iraqi government on proposed programs to de-radicalise women affiliated with ISIS. She studied at Oxford, Durham and Harvard Universities, and has a PhD in International Affairs. Dr Younis was a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington DC, where she directed the Task Force on the Future of Iraq. She has published Op-Eds in the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the New York Times. She was born in the UK to an Iraqi father and a Pakistani mother, and currently lives in London.
