I love it when one of my favourite authors releases a new book (and, you know, I only post GOOD book reviews on here. If I don't like a book, I don't review it).
There are apparently constant contrasts within the story, but
as I read, I realised that maybe there are many similarities too.
Beth is mentally abused, and probably soon to be physically
abused by her controlling husband. Her miserable life, although affluent and,
as seen from the outside, very comfortable, continues because she feels she’s
not strong enough to do anything about it. Until the day she rescues Egyptian Muslim
girl, Layla, from the brutal hands of her two brothers. Layla has, to save
family face, been promised in marriage to an Egyptian man many years her senior.
When Layla disappears, Beth finds she’s been sent to Egypt
which spurs mild Beth into uncharacteristic action. She finds courage from
somewhere and makes her way, on her own, to the underbelly of Cairo where
wife-beating is the norm.
Reading about life for the poor of Cairo was greatly
interesting: the dirt, poverty (cockroaches that scuttle about in the night),
the lack of water for showering, the way the men ogle blonde Beth. Fantatics.
Yet fanatical is also Beth’s mother – an unforgiving (and completely
non-Christian to my way of thinking) Methodist who spurns her own family
because of her twisted views.
“Oppression”, I think, is a profound story – oppression on
so many levels proving the West has certain similarities with the Middle East. Ms
Noble writes a powerful story with her incredible knack of creating settings so
real that the reader is transported to the backstreets of Cairo and the rolling
hills of Yorkshire. The story kept me up reading all night. Top marks!
Buy links: Amazon uk
Amazon US
Tomorrow (Tuesday), Dianne will be a guest on my blog so do come back to hear how she writes these incredibly atmospheric books
Buy links: Amazon uk
Amazon US
Tomorrow (Tuesday), Dianne will be a guest on my blog so do come back to hear how she writes these incredibly atmospheric books
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