How we met : a memoir of love and other
Qureshi, Huma (Novelist)2022
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Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds - school and teenage crushes in one; the expectations and unwritten rules of her family's south Asian social circle in the other. Reconciling the two was sometimes a tightrope act, but she managed it. Until it came to marriage. Caught between her family's concern to see her safely settled down with someone suitable, her own appetite for adventure and a hopeless devotion to romance honed from Georgette Heyer, she seeks temporary refuge in Paris and imagines a future full of possibility. And then her father has a stroke and everything changes. As Huma learns to focus on herself she realises that searching for a suitor has been masking everything that was wrong in her life: grief for her father, the weight of expectation, uncertainty about who she really is. When your worlds collide, how do you measure one love against another?
Main title:
How we met : a memoir of love and other / Huma Qureshi.
Author:
Qureshi, Huma (Novelist), author
Imprint:
London : Elliott and Thompson, 2022.
Collation:
240 pages
ISBN:
9781783966110 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
306.7092B QUR QURB QUR306.709
Language:
English
Subject:
Qureshi, Huma (Novelist)Qureshi, Huma (Novelist) -- Childhood and youthQureshi, Huma (Novelist) -- FamilyMuslim women -- England -- Walsall -- BiographyMuslims -- England -- Walsall -- BiographyWomen authors, English -- 21st century -- BiographyAuthors, English -- 21st century -- BiographyArranged marriageLoveMan-woman relationshipsBiography
BRN:
2282212