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Between Two Rivers: A Story of Life, Love and Marriage from an English Woman in Baghdad

An honest, funny, and moving memoir of a young woman from England transplanted into another culture by love, Between Two Rivers details the experience of vibrant 1960s Baghdad life and the city’s complex social customs, pre-Saddam. When Dorothy set off on a night out with her sister, she never dreamed it would lead to a car journey to Baghdad; but that night she met a dark, mysterious stranger — an Iraqi student named Zane — and almost before she knew it they were married and driving to Baghdad in a borrowed car with their baby daughter. They moved into a house in the suburbs with Zane’s family, throwing Dorothy into the maelstrom of Iraqi culture: letters could take weeks to arrive, there were no mobile phones or computers, and there was no direct dial facility to the UK — she might as well have been living on the moon.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 250
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781908946874
  • Release date
  • 2013