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RSVP here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n

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TMR’s August 2023 book club selection is the novel is A Stranger in Baghdad\u00a0<\/em>by Elizabeth Loudon<\/h4>\n

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In beautifully rendered prose, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this intergenerational drama set against a background of political tension and intrigue<\/p>\n

\u201cWho would be charmed by tales of life in the beautiful old house on the banks of the Tigris\u2014looted now no doubt, its shutters torn and the courtyard strewn with mattresses?\u201d<\/p>\n

One night in 2003, Anglo-Iraqi psychiatrist Mona Haddad has a surprise visitor to her London office, an old acquaintance Duncan Claybourne. But why has he come? Will his confession finally lay bare what happened to her family before they escaped Iraq?<\/p>\n

Their stories begin in 1937,\u00a0when Mona\u2019s mother Diane, a lively Englishwoman newly married to Ibrahim, an ambitious Iraqi doctor, meets Duncan by chance. Diane is working as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family. Duncan is a young British Embassy officer in Baghdad. When the king dies in a mysterious accident, Ibrahim and his family suspect Diane of colluding with Duncan and the British.<\/p>\n

Summoning up the vanished world of mid-twentieth-century Baghdad, Elizabeth Loudon\u2019s richly evocative story of one family calls into question British attitudes and policies in Iraq and offers up a penetrating reflection on cross-cultural marriage and the lives of women caught between different worlds.<\/p>\n

To read an excerpt,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll meet to talk about the book on the last Sunday in August, the 27th, at 1 pm Eastern\/19:00 CET.<\/p>\n

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RSVP here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novelist Elizabeth Louden joins TMR’s Book Club moderated by Rana Asfour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":27637,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[305,649,885,1835],"tribe_events_cat":[1905],"coauthors":[2196],"class_list":["post-27636","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-baghdad","tag-fiction","tag-iraq","tag-writers","tribe_events_cat-author-events","cat_author-events","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Stranger in Baghdad with Elizabeth Loudon - 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