Book description
Pride and Prejudice in the Arabian Gulf?
For most people, being a single mother to three boys (two of them
teenagers), sorting out your feelings for an ex-boyfriend who's now an
international film star, pacifying an elderly father who keeps asking
why you're not married, tolerating your bigoted brother, while keeping
out of the way of a dismissive film producer who seems to have made a
mission out of annoying you, would be quite enough of a challenge.
Annie Lester is not only trying to tackle all this - she's also
doing it in the small Gulf emirate of Hawar where, in the summer of
2002, the impact of America's decision to invade Iraq is just
beginning to be felt.
The Gulf Between Us is a deliciously written novel about
disappointment, hope and surviving in a world of conflicting values by
the author of The Handmade House and Observer journalist
Geraldine Bedell.
'Politics and passion make for combustion in this acutely observed
and often very funny novel' The Times
'Geraldine Bedell invites us straight into the beating heart of
family life . . . a delicious novel' Meg Rosoff
Praise for The Handmade House
'A warm, funny, satisfying book' India Knight
Geraldine Bedell is an author and journalist. She lives in London
with her husband and four children.
