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Book SynopsisA young woman leaves her life in London behind, to fight for the only cause she truly believes in. But what happens when she discovers that it's not everything she dreamed it would be?
Trade ReviewSyria, Isis, radicalisation, parental love & the zeitgeist wrapped up in a poetic page-turner of epic proportions * James O'Brien *
Sofia’s visceral chronicle of self-radicalisation is delivered in a persuasive voice. It could have been a literary novel along the lines of Kamila Shamsie’s award-winning
Home Fire, but a tense second strand is added – the desperate Abraham, whom she regards as westernised and lost to the faith, travelling to Syria in an attempt to save her. His terrifying encounters with people-traffickers and violent jihadis pulse with tension. But the real achievement of the novel lies in the portrait of a naive young woman realising that the pure religious caliphate she has committed to is a place of betrayal, misogyny and lethal danger. * Guardian *
Morgan Jones’s
The Good Sister centres on a father heading to Syria via Turkey on a rescue mission . . . Interwoven with his narrative is the first-person story of his teenage daughter Sofia, a devout Muslim who flees to the “caliphate”, where she is swiftly married to a mujahid . . . Both are handled remarkably convincingly in an enthralling adventure story peopled with memorable characters * Sunday Times *
Deft, complex and believable plotting, tense, gut-wrenching action, and classy literary writing --
Kirkus (on
The Jackal's Share)
Morgan Jones weaves an engaging narrative --
Financial Times (on
The Jackal's Share)
