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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 Exciting Scary Middle East Iran Africa

Critic reviews

"Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read." ( Sunday Times)
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From the beginning of the book there is a sense of threat and oppression as the main character, a professional woman married to a man working in a Middle Eastern country, comes to grips with living in a misogynist, muslim, arab environment. As a woman she has no power, no status, no independence and no credibility in her own right. It is a very disturbing picture of life with the veil through the eyes of a western woman. Mantel maintains the tension to the end and this is a gripping novel, written as well as you would expect. Highly recommended.

Disturbing

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The description of the Saudi weather and landscaping is fantastic in that it makes you feel the heat and the dust. Description of the trees is so sad and you want to scream “what about the environment!” The fact that there is the highest waterfall in the world there is a fact of which there is pride !!!!! Beautifully drawn women and fantastic narration .

Scary.

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Excellent narrator. Would have liked a clue of post move plans, did they stay after the move?

very good

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Fascinating book on expat life in Saudi Arabia and the hypocrisy of the tyrannical middles Easter regimes

Enlightening

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Well read by Sandra Duncan, this book describes the hopelessness of an ex-pat woman in an alien environment.

Chillingly evocative

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