Featured on BBC Radio 4-s Open Book - Featured on BBC Radio 3-s Free Thinking - An ELLE Magazine cultural pick - Reviewed in the Observer-Beautifully written- Joanna Cannon-Fascinating - full of personality- Guardian-Brilliant - What a debut- Pandora Sykes-How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything about each other, the most monumental thing to ever happen to me was buried and covered over? For the sake of my reputation, my future, my sister-s and cousins; the family honor sat on my little shoulders, so no-one could ever know.-Dahlia has two lives. In one, she is a young woman with a good job, great friends and a busy social life. In the other, she is an unmarried daughter living at home, struggling with a burgeoning anxiety disorder and a deeply buried secret: a violent betrayal too shameful to speak of.With her thirtieth birthday fast-approaching, pressure from her mother to accept a marriage proposal be
