[]
Secrets of the Henna Girl
  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141339801
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $27.99

Secrets of the Henna Girl

Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Fishpond Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

A searing and moving fiction debut that explores the illegal practice of forced marriages.

Sufiya Ahmed has recently written for the bestselling non-fiction anthology IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BURQA. Read her debut YA novel now!
Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .

Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love.

Except her parents have other plans.

In Pakistan for the summer, Zeba's world is shattered. Her future is threatened by an unthinkable - and forced - duty to protect her father's honour.

But does she hold the secrets that will help her escape?
  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141339801
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $27.99
Categories:

About the authors

Sufiya Ahmed

Sufiya Ahmed was born in India and arrived in the UK as a baby. She lived in Bolton, Lancashire, before moving to London where she still lives. Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children.
SA

Praise for Secrets of the Henna Girl

A hard-hitting, important story

Sophia Bennett, author of THREADS