| Record Number |
877371 |
| ISBN |
9781526647696 (paperback) |
| Author |
Shamsie, Kamila, 1973- author. |
| Title |
Best of friends / Kamila Shamsie. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Pagination etc. |
315 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Summary Note |
Maryam and Zahra. In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome. Zahra and Maryam. In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it... Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undone by one decision? |
| Subject |
Female friendship -- Fiction |
| Life change events -- Fiction |
| Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction |
| Karachi (Pakistan) -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| London (England) -- 21st century -- Fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F SHAM |
