The Pact We Made

The Pact We Made
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Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book • Featured on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking • An ELLE Magazine cultural pick • Reviewed in the Observer ‘Beautifully written’ Joanna Cannon ‘Fascinating … full of personality’ Guardian ‘Brilliant … What a debut’ Pandora Sykes‘How could I explain to her that nothing in my life felt real? That in a country like Kuwait, where everyone knew everything about each other, the most monumental thing to ever happen to me was buried and covered over? For the sake of my reputation, my future, my sister’s and cousins; the family honor sat on my little shoulders, so no-one could ever know.’Dahlia has two lives. In one, she is a young woman with a good job, great friends and a busy social life. In the other, she is an unmarried daughter living at home, struggling with a burgeoning anxiety disorder and a deeply buried secret: a violent betrayal too shameful to speak of.With her thirtieth birthday fast-approaching, pressure from her mother to accept a marriage proposal begins to strain the family. As her two lives start to collide and fracture, all Dahlia can think of is escape: something that seems impossible when she can’t even leave the country without her father’s consent.But what if Dahlia does have a choice? What if all she needs is the courage to make it?Set in contemporary Kuwait, The Pact We Made is a deeply affecting and timely debut about family, secrets and one woman’s search for a different life.

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Layla AlAmmar. The Pact We Made

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Praise for The Pact We Made:

Dedication

Epigraph

1. The Marriage Pact

2. Hush

3. A Grotesque Pandemonium

4. A Marauding Heart

5. The Architect

6. Snow Globes

7. They Spin Finely

8. The Sleep of Reason …

9 … Produces Monsters

10. Who More Is Surrendered?

11. Tantalus

12. He Cannot Make Her Out

13. What One Does to the Other

14. Hunting for Teeth

15. A Cowslip’s Bell

16. Fifteen Candles

17. Those Specks of Dust

18. When Day Breaks

19. There It Goes

20. You Will Not Escape

21. It Is Time

22. I Have Chosen

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Publisher

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‘[A] fascinating glimpse into the complex and contradictory life of a modern Kuwaiti woman … full of personality and touches of humour’

Guardian

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Chapter 20: You Will Not Escape

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