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by Elizabeth Loudon
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth LoudonSeries:Hoopoe FictionPublish date:2023-05-16Pages:444
Languages:EnglishPublisher:HoopoeISBN-13:9781649032850ISBN-10:1649032854UPC:9781649032850Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, WomenSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC7DYGRRRY

NAMED ONE OF '51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023' (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)
LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD

An intergenerational drama rendered in beautiful prose featuring the struggles of a mother and daughter to navigate as outsiders in Baghdad and London

"Who would be charmed by tales of life in the beautiful old house on the banks of the Tigris--looted now no doubt, its shutters torn and the courtyard strewn with mattresses?"

One night in 2003, Anglo-Iraqi psychiatrist Mona Haddad has a surprise visitor to her London office, an old acquaintance Duncan Claybourne. But why has he come? Will his confession finally lay bare what happened to her family before they escaped Iraq?

Their stories begin in 1937, when Mona's mother Diane, a lively Englishwoman newly married to Ibrahim, an ambitious Iraqi doctor, meets Duncan by chance. Diane is working as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family. Duncan is a young British Embassy officer in Baghdad. When the king dies in a mysterious accident, Ibrahim and his family suspect Diane of colluding with Duncan and the British.

Summoning up the vanished world of mid-twentieth-century Baghdad, Elizabeth Loudon's richly evocative story of one family calls into question British attitudes and policies in Iraq and offers up a penetrating reflection on cross-cultural marriage and the lives of women caught between different worlds.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:HoopoeISBN-13:9781649032850ISBN-10:1649032854UPC:9781649032850Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, WomenSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC7DYGRRRY
Elizabeth Loudon is a former college lecturer and charity development consultant. She has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MA in English from Cambridge University, and has taught at Smith, Amherst, and Williams Colleges. She's published fiction and memoir in the Denver Quarterly, INTRO, North American Review, and Gettysburg Review, among others, and received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. She drew on her experiences traveling in Iraq and Lebanon in the 1970s when writing A Stranger in Baghdad, her first novel. It was longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award and won the Stroud Book Festival Fiction Competition. She lives in London.
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