By Geraldine Bedell
For many humans, being a unmarried mom to 3 boys (two of them teenagers), checking out your emotions for an ex-boyfriend who's now a global movie celebrity, pacifying an aged father who retains asking why you're now not married, tolerating your bigoted brother, whereas conserving out of how of a dismissive movie manufacturer who turns out to have made a project out of frustrating you, will be fairly sufficient of a challenge.
Annie Lester despite the fact that, is not just attempting to take on all this - she's additionally doing it within the small Gulf emirate of Hawar the place, in the summertime of 2002, the impression of America's choice to invade Iraq is simply commencing to be felt.
As her well-organised lifestyles starts off to resolve within the such a lot unforeseen methods, Annie has to make a few tricky judgements, and query the place her loyalties lie. Are her sons outlined through who they're, or by means of what they do? Can a British lady ever relatively be at domestic within the center East? and will James Hartley, the blue-eyed heartthrob loved through thousands, rather be eager about somebody as traditional as Annie Lester believes herself to be?
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There was one old lady in a fur coat and hat with so many layers beneath that she appeared as swollen as a tick. One nervous, suspicious woman grasped at her valuables, looking over her shoulder and hovering over her treasures like a hen with a clutch of eggs. In contrast there was a man wearing nothing but a nightshirt and a silk top hat. In one hand he held a bottle of brandy, in the other a cigar. He sat calmly in a crowded hack, watching the mountain of fire beyond the bridge. A woman hurried past on foot, pushing a baby carriage.
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