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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

By: Hilary Mantel
Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
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Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, and the streets are not a woman's territory; so she becomes confined in her flat. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank – waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.

©1988 Hilary Mantel (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Saudi Arabia Middle East Africa Iran

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"Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read." ( Sunday Times)
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There is a sense of menace, of claustrophobia, and of bewilderment hanging over this book, and all three come together in the startling ending. Dark yet full of insight: bleak but also funny. Wonderful book, read brilliantly by Sandra Duncan

Great book, wonderful narration

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