Best of Friends: from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction . Insightful and unsettling, the novel employs sumptuous prose to unpick the seams of a forty-year friendship and illuminate the ripple-like effects of power and history. The Story:- In 1988, as Pakistan is on the brink of political overhaul, two fourteen year-old girls are on the brink of womanhood. Their Arcadian days of secrets, laughter and a shared love for George Michael are brought crashing down when a snap decision at a party changes their lives forever . Years later in London, Zahra and Maryam are women with money, power and influence, both still haunted by that night all those years ago.