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Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it's only on their rarely snatched holidays that the friends can catch up. As they swim, drink and talk by the glittering Italian Riviera, Huda and Yvone ponder just how complicated it is to be free and the eternal mysteries of love, sex, and getting a guy to call you back. Then, amid the glitz and chatter of London's Mayfair, a chance encounter brings their past rushing back. But Huda has a wicked trick her sleeve

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Brilliant … Wise, witty and unexpectedly profound * Alberto Manguel *
One of the Arab worlds most important voices … The story of two women looking for love and discovering what they're prepared to do for it * Net a Porter Magazine, Top 10 Beach Reads *
Hanan Al-Shaykh is a sensation … Captures effortlessly the fearsome frankness with which women can talk to women about sex * Sydney Morning Herald *
Romantic and outrageous … Brilliant * The National *

The Occasional Virgin

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/08/2019
      ISBN13: 9781408895689, 978-1408895689
      ISBN10: 1408895684
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      Book Synopsis
      Yvonne and Huda have come a long way. Attractive, successful and glamorous, their brilliant ascent has flung them far from Lebanon, and each other. Now it's only on their rarely snatched holidays that the friends can catch up. As they swim, drink and talk by the glittering Italian Riviera, Huda and Yvone ponder just how complicated it is to be free and the eternal mysteries of love, sex, and getting a guy to call you back. Then, amid the glitz and chatter of London's Mayfair, a chance encounter brings their past rushing back. But Huda has a wicked trick her sleeve

      Trade Review
      Brilliant … Wise, witty and unexpectedly profound * Alberto Manguel *
      One of the Arab worlds most important voices … The story of two women looking for love and discovering what they're prepared to do for it * Net a Porter Magazine, Top 10 Beach Reads *
      Hanan Al-Shaykh is a sensation … Captures effortlessly the fearsome frankness with which women can talk to women about sex * Sydney Morning Herald *
      Romantic and outrageous … Brilliant * The National *

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