Best of friends / Female friendship Life change events Power (Social sciences)

Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-

Best of friends / Kamila Shamsie. - 315 pages ; 22 cm.

Maryam and Zahra. In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome. Zahra and Maryam. In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it… Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision?

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Female friendship--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Power (Social sciences)--Fiction.


Karachi (Pakistan)--20th century--Fiction.
London (England)--21st century--Fiction.

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