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Best Of Friends

Kamila Shamsie

Published: 29th September 2022 Shamise offers a compelling examiniation of identity, friendship and the contradictions of contemporary London. Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9781526647702

Our Curators said...

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This dazzling novel shows a modern and complex view of Britain today, through the tale of enduring friendship and how we use power.

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What the Critics are Saying

'A number of authors are publishing the successors to notable hits. Kamila Shamsie follows Home Fire with Best of Friends'

New Statesman Books of The Year 2022

'A new Kamila Shamsie novel is always worth celebrating, but Best of Friends is something else: an epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists'