![]() Because both women are so articulate and yet so able to be delighted by life's small pleasures (a hair cut in Baghdad or a swim in Hampstead ponds) the book fizzes with page-turning power. In contrast London life is safe, but a different sort of exhausting for mum of three Bee Rowlatt who juggles work, mothering, and helping run her kids' PTA with hardly a moment to call her own. In a war zone everything takes an age, scary rumours fly, but there's also so much hanging around at home, the only mostly-safe place to be. This email record 2005-2008 helps offer some understanding of the horrors of being based in Baghdad - the lack of power, the road blocks, the blackmarket - for Iraqi uni lecturer, May Witwit. ![]() "Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad" makes the ordinary extraordinary with an uplifting end. ![]()
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