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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit

This was recently serialised on Radio 4 and is about the close friendship via e-mail between Bee Rowlatt in England and May WitWit in Baghdad. May is a University lecturer who teaches Jane Austen and loves shoes, and Bee is a BBC reporter and mum of three. May's e-mails reveal the chilling reality of everyday life with her husband in a war zone. As the danger increases, Bee makes the life changing decision to intervene.

Available for loan from Onchan Library.