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High Tea in Mosul tells the story of two Englishwomen, Margaret and
Pauline, who married Iraqi men and lived with them in the northern city
of Mosul, as ordinary Iraqi wives and mothers, for 30 years. Their
story opens a window on the lives of people who lived under the misery
of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, only to have it replaced by
occupation, terror and complete civil breakdown following the 2003
US-led invasion that toppled Saddam from power but left a vacuum
quickly filled by criminal gangs, terrorists, and fanatical Islamist
jihadists. As the country falls into civil war, the lives of the women
and their families are separately shattered by events that unfold as
the book is being written. Margaret and Pauline become our eyes on a
nation and a people whose fate our own governments and armies have
helped shape; their extraordinary stories provide a unique perspective
on the horror, going beyond the headlines to bring light to the human
face of a country at once so familiar, yet so remote.
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