The setting is Karachi, 1988 and Maryam and Zahra are best friends.
Their world is changing and when a dictatorship falls a woman is set to take the place, leading to a more feminist viewpoint and way of ruling.
But one night, one party changes everything as the two girls go driving with boys, taboo in their culture.
Then it switches to modern day London and the two are still friends, but there are echoes from that night in 1988 and though both successful women in their own right, there are hidden resentments and how their lives followed followed different paths due to the consequences of their actions.
The premise and blurb sounded intriguing and the culture divide between Karachi and London made a good backdrop for the story.
But overall I just found this all quite dull and not really sure at times where is was going.
Frankly I think the blurb oversold this and the story was quite tame and not as powerful as I had imagined, very slow, plodding pace didn't help to move the action along either.
It wasn't terribly bad but not the best or most gripping story either so having to give a middle of the road kind of score.
Just not for me, the writing style didn't gel with me so a bit of a miss.
Their world is changing and when a dictatorship falls a woman is set to take the place, leading to a more feminist viewpoint and way of ruling.
But one night, one party changes everything as the two girls go driving with boys, taboo in their culture.
Then it switches to modern day London and the two are still friends, but there are echoes from that night in 1988 and though both successful women in their own right, there are hidden resentments and how their lives followed followed different paths due to the consequences of their actions.
The premise and blurb sounded intriguing and the culture divide between Karachi and London made a good backdrop for the story.
But overall I just found this all quite dull and not really sure at times where is was going.
Frankly I think the blurb oversold this and the story was quite tame and not as powerful as I had imagined, very slow, plodding pace didn't help to move the action along either.
It wasn't terribly bad but not the best or most gripping story either so having to give a middle of the road kind of score.
Just not for me, the writing style didn't gel with me so a bit of a miss.