Taking inspiration from the author’s time as a foreign correspondent in Baghdad under Saddam Hussein’s rule in the early 2000s, this novel follows three women as their lives intersect. Huda, who works at the Australian embassy, has been ordered by the secret police to befriend Ally, the deputy ambassador’s wife, and report her learnings. But Ally has secrets of her own, and when Huda’s former friend, the desperate daughter of a fallen sheikh, gets involved, the women will have to form a tenuous loyalty in order to keep their families safe.
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