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|date= February 2010
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There are various suggestions for further reading, depending on what interests you. The book title reminded me of ''Reading Lolita in Tehran'' by Azar Nafisi. Some modern novels for Jane Austen fans are [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith]], [[Acting Up by Melissa Nathan]] or [[The Importance of Being Emma by Juliet Archer]]. If you like reading letters and diaries, [[Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)|Nella Last's Peace]] is based on the post-war diaries of an ordinary woman in England. Mary Dora Russell's [[Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell|Dreamers of the Day]] is a historical novel set in the Middle East in the 1920s which offers an insight into the background of the present day's politics.
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|comment= The true story of May Witwit my childhood neighbour and school friend while she lived in the UK as a child, now an Iraqi Academic, her survival in Iraq and journey to safety in the UK via her email friendship with a BBC journalist
•How to survive life in a war zone… leaving earlier to go to work in order to get through the checkpoints …But still going to work!!
•What to do when doing your hair and the electricity goes off…Go to work half curly and half straight!
•How to encourage kids to still study during chaos…. show them its business as usual, lessons give a touch of normality...
The story we didn’t hear in the news, of ordinary daily life during the Iraq war as told by an Iraqi
It isn’t often that two 51 year old women who were neighbours and school friends aged 11 meet up again in London on a sunny May afternoon after almost 40 years, and when one asks the other “What have you been doing, what has happened to you…?” She knows that it is a daft question really and the answer is too harrowing to imagine for the answer lies in the reply “Read my book!”
I owe more than I can possibly express to Bee Rowlatt, thanks to her courage, daring and friendship my childhood friend is safe in the UK, and I have met her again after forty years. An inspiring book that will move the reader to tears in its accounts of courage… make you smile and put lots of troubles in perspective
Valerie Hedges
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