Best of friends / Kamila Shamsie.
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TextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 315 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526647696; 9781526647702Subject(s): Female friendship -- Fiction | Life change events -- Fiction | Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction | Karachi (Pakistan) -- 20th century -- Fiction | London (England) -- 21st century -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: 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?
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F SHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 20/05/2024 | 31111084260916 |
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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