
The name alone of the country Afghanistan conjures up images of war, strife, death, despair and deprivation. Intellectually we know there is a life beyond the headlines, an everyday existence which is rarely written about. A few books in recent years have emerged to fill the gap of our lack of knowledge and one of the best of these is Mary Smith’s excellent ‘No More Mulberries’.
Although a fiction novel, it is evident that the author draws on her personal experience as a health worker for ten years in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
‘No More Mulberries’ follows the life of Scottish-born midwife Miriam, who has wholeheartedly embraced Afghanistan and relishes her work with the local people in the rural community of her second husband. Here she makes friends, finds fulfilment with her work however cracks quickly appear in her life.
Her husband Iqbal is struggling to cope with the return to…
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Warmest thanks for the reblog, Sue! 😀 It’s lovely that readers on your blog can learn about Mary Smith’s book … it is wonderful.
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I love the way Mary writes, Annika 🙂
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Thanks so much for sharing Annika’s post, Sue. It’s a lovely review and was quite unexpected.
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It is so nice when that hapens 🙂
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