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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship
Bee Rowlatt
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Description for Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship
Paperback. A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends. This title tells the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141038537
SKU
V9780141038537
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About 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 ... Read more
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