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Paperback / softback. New. This is more than straightforward misery. It shows us the difficulty faced by Muslim girls growing up in 1980s Britain; deals with the horror of arranged marriages and the fall out when it goes wrong; what it means to be alienated from those you love and details the trauma involved in being a prostitute who loathes what she does, whilst celebrating the freedom it brings
DISGRACED by Saira Ahmed
by Saira Ahmed
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DISGRACED
by Saira Ahmed
- Used
- Paperback
Headline paperback (stiff card cover), 2008, 307 pages. Another horrifyingly true story from the dark recesses of a part of the human race still unable to comprehend a person's right to choose how they live life. Saira is a pseudonym - necessary to protect her and her daughter from deadly retribution from her family. Discovered having an innocent friendship with a boy she was sent from England to Pakistan to be married off to an older man - becoming his round-the-clock sex-slave. Saira escapes back to England but her troubles are still not over.
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Bookseller
Felicity Books
(AU)
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Paperback
- Keywords BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY WOMEN RELIGION MARRIAGE PAKISTAN
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Disgraced
by Saira Ahmed
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780755318186 / 0755318188
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- 5
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Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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NZ$20.27
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