Kamila Shamsie – författare

När Isma lämnar England för USA är det med känslan av att livet äntligen kan börja på riktigt. Efter moderns död har hon helhjärtat ägnat sig åt småsyskonen, men nu har hon fått chansen att följa sina drömmar. Mitt uppe iden nya tillvaron kan hon ändå inte sluta oroa sig för sin viljestarka syster Aneeka hemma i London, och brodern Parvaiz som också han när en dröm. Han vill hedra arvet från sin pappa, jihadisten han aldrig kände, och försvinner spårlöst. När Parvaiz återigen ger sig tillkänna besannas Ismas värsta farhågor.   

Strax därpå lär systrarna känna Eamonn, sonen till en mäktig politiker. Eamonn har även han ett arv att leva upp till eller trotsa. De två familjernas öden flätas obönhörligen samman, med drastiska konsekvenser för alla inblandade. Var och en tvingas de fråga sig vad innebörden av orden kärlek och lojalitet kommer att kosta dem.

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.''Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler'' Red Magazine''Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring'' Daily Mirror''Where power and feminist rage meet'' StylistBANSHEE. DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO.For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.STORIES BY: Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Annie Hodson, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, Kirsty Logan, Caroline O''Donoghue, Chibundu Onuzo, Helen Oyeyemi, Rachel Seiffert, Kamila Shamsie, Ali Smith, with an Introduction by Sandi Toksvig

The spirit of Elena Ferrante haunts this tale of a friendship forged in Karachi - Sunday Times A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces - Madeline Miller 'A shining tour de force' - Ali Smith, Guardian Summer Reading CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL AND FINANCIAL TIMES

 A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people - from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Sometimes it was as though the forty years of friendship between them was just a lesson in the unknowability of other people 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?

'A new Kamila Shamsie novel is always worth celebrating, but Best of Friends is something else: an epic story that explores the ties of childhood friendship, the possibility of escape, the way the political world intrudes into the personal, all through the lens of two sharply drawn protagonists' - Observer, Books of the Year 2022