Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt

And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes and the secrets, they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Rowlatt, Bee Witwit, May and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears.

But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age. Bee, on the other hand, is a London mum of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad September. She is also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Book reviews: Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit. A new online book club for 2014 - exploring motherhood in Jane Austen novels. 'Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May is a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. The best-seller Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (Penguin) was dramatised by the BBC and translated into numerous languages.