Playing Games

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529368741
  • Weight: 435g
  • Dimensions: 142 x 220mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal

'Poignant and impressionistic . . . highly readable and relatable' Guardian

'A gem of a novel' i


'A beautifully written debut' Red


Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a mess. But Hana wants children and her husband is hesitating, and perhaps her control is slipping.

Mira dreams of a creative life but she's stuck working at a local café. She hates her flatmate and Hana's dismissal of her writing but she can't find the right inspiration.

One night, a fight between Hana and her husband sparks something in Mira: the words ring in her head and she starts typing. But what can you borrow from your sister? And what can be forgiven?

'Warm and moving . . . Playing Games thoughtfully and elegantly considers what it means to be a sister, a mother and a writer' Chloë Ashby, author of Wet Paint

'A riveting and evocative tale of two sisters navigating love, loss and desires' Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country

'Reading Qureshi's crystal prose is a rare pleasure. I found Playing Games unputdownable' Molly Aitken, author of The Island Child

Huma Qureshi is an award-winning writer, and the author of the memoir How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures, shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, and the short story collection Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and the Edge Hill Prize, both published in 2021. She lives in London.

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