This book is the essence of exotic and is extremely eluding and enticing in its characters past and present dilemmas. Vicky has travelled to marrakech to visit her estranged grandmother Clemence. The description of the kasbah, is ambrosial and soporific.. you can vividly taste the food and the aromas of the jasmine tickle the mind.. you can feel the sun drenched streets and the cool shades in this fabulously diverse landscape. Vicky and her cousin are relishing in the opportunity to explore and makes new friends. In a politically charged place, Jimmy and Tom are involved in conspiracy theories and suddenly Vicky is thrown into this dark world. All this is interwoven with Clemences deeply guarded secretive past. The story is extremely tangible and animated throughout, it emanates with live, tragedy and is very compassion inducing. Riveted throughout.