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    The Pact We Made
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    Audiobook7 hours

    The Pact We Made

    Written by Layla AlAmmar

    Narrated by Nadia Albina

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    About this audiobook

    Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book • Featured on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking • An ELLE Magazine cultural pick • Reviewed in the Observer

    ‘Beautifully written’ Joanna Cannon
    ‘Fascinating … full of personality’ Guardian
    ‘Brilliant … What a debut’ Pandora Sykes

    ‘How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything about each other, the most monumental thing to ever happen to me was buried and covered over? For the sake of my reputation, my future, my sister’s and cousins; the family honor sat on my little shoulders, so no-one could ever know.’

    Dahlia has two lives. In one, she is a young woman with a good job, great friends and a busy social life. In the other, she is an unmarried daughter living at home, struggling with a burgeoning anxiety disorder and a deeply buried secret: a violent betrayal too shameful to speak of.

    With her thirtieth birthday fast-approaching, pressure from her mother to accept a marriage proposal begins to strain the family. As her two lives start to collide and fracture, all Dahlia can think of is escape: something that seems impossible when she can’t even leave the country without her father’s consent.

    But what if Dahlia does have a choice? What if all she needs is the courage to make it?

    Set in contemporary Kuwait, The Pact We Made is a deeply affecting and timely debut about family, secrets and one woman’s search for a different life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 7, 2019
    ISBN9780008284473
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      The whole book was relatable in some eerie and brilliant way. The writer has amazingly penned down all the things that women of our society go through.