Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad
Subtitle: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780141038537
Subjects: Women, great britain; Women, iraq; Women, social conditions; Women journalists; Mothers; Women teachers; Women, biography; Friendship
Description: May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad. Bee is a London mum of three. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age.