Book description
Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s
pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from
the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal
fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and
stable amidst the shifting desert sands.
Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of
all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating
story Spectator.
Esther Freud was born in 1963 and lives in London. Her previous
novels are
Hideous Kinky
, which was made into a film starring Kate Winslet,
Peerless Flats
,
Gaglow
and
The Wild.
