Ebook: Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The Story of an Unlikely Friendship
Author: Witwit May, Rowlatt Bee
- Tags: Rowlatt Bee., Witwit May., Female friendship., Women -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 21st century., Women -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Social conditions -- 21st century., Women journalists -- England -- London -- Biography., Mothers -- England -- London -- Biography., Women teachers -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography.
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London, England--London, Iraq--Baghdad
- Language: English
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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...