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100			_aC, Wing Commander Athol Forbes D F C, Squadron Leader Hubert Allen D F
245		0	_aTalking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
260			_bPenguin UK _c2010
300			_a26 pages
500			_aWould you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May s a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She s also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi ite 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. 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. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears. 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 . . .
650			_aBiography & Autobiography
942			_cENGLISH
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