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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...

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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