Salt and Saffron

By the acclaimed winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2018The Dard-e-Dils are characterised by their prominent clavicles and love of stories. Aliya may not have inherited her family-s patrician looks, but she is prey to their legends that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. There is a sting to most of these tales, for the Dard-e-Dils consider themselves cursed by their -not-quite- twins. Amidst her growing attraction to a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, Aliya begins to believe that she is another -not-quite- twin, linked to her scandalous aunt Mariam in a way that hardly bodes well-