A heartbreakingly honest and funny autobiographical novel about family, love and life in rural France
A heartbreakingly honest and funny autobiographical novel about family, love and life in rural France
Saira Shah is an award-winning writer, war reporter and documentary film-maker whose work includes the films 'Beneath the Veil' and 'Death in Gaza'. Her daughter, Ailsa, has severe cerebral palsy.
Heartfelt and funny and beautiful. A great meditation on motherhood
and marriage that leaves you thinking about all the issues involved
for a long time afterwards
*Red*
A frank, wonderfully unsentimental and often very funny novel about
becoming a mother to a disabled child
*Kirsty Lang*
Saira Shah is a gifted writer, a truly original talent. Her novel
declares the presence of an author whose name we will come to
cherish
*Fergal Keane*
Anarchically life-affirming... Shah writes with sensuous
passion
*New York Times*
A touchingly funny, bittersweet first novel... An addictive, honest
read
*Red*
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