Huma Qureshi's debut novel delves into the ethical question of turning someone's story into fiction. The story follows two sisters, Mira and Hana, as they navigate the aftermath of their mother's death. Mira, a struggling playwright, is determined to finish a play for a writing competition, while Hana, a successful lawyer, grapples with starting a family. When Mira overhears an argument between Hana and her husband, she begins writing a story that becomes her competition entry.
As a memoirist, writing coach and former journalist, Huma Qureshi knows every inch of the border that demarcates fact and fiction . In her debut novel , she sets this issue at the heart of her story and asks, is it ever okay to take someone’s story and turn it into fiction? Mira and Hana are sisters in their 30s who are still coming to terms with the effects of the death of their mother years before.
Mira is a struggling playwright, working in a coffee shop and sharing a flat with an obnoxious flatmate. She is desperate to finish a play so she can enter a writing competition and kickstart her playwriting career. Hana is the pragmatic older sister, a successful lawyer with a beautiful house and a husband. She is impatient to start a family but her husband Samir is not so sure. When Mira overhears an argument between Samir and Hana at their house one night, she starts writing a story which eventually becomes her entry for the playwriting competitio
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