Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2010
Summary
A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they’re the firmest of friends…
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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141038537 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141038535 |
| Author: | Bee Rowlatt, May Witwit |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Bee Rowlatt
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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