Huma qureshi autobiography in five short

This is an exceptional collection of short stories from Huma Qureshi, a lyrical and beautiful writer, who explores the territory of our most intimate relationships, and the theme of what is left unsaid within them. These wide ranging stories cover cultural and generational tensions, interracial relationships, marriages, family, motherhood, differing mother-daughter dynamics, class, gender, friendships and so much more that marks the ordinariness of the everyday lives that the author elevates to the extraordinary with her razor sharp observations and astute insights. There are the lies, secrets, despair, love, loneliness, loss, grief and silence that many readers will relate to, particularly as there is a universality that crosses cultural boundaries when it comes to the nature of human relationships, repeating themselves in their many forms throughout our history.

Set in numerous locations, London, rural England, Tuscany, and Lahore, we have a young girl building up a covert relationship of longing with a boy, where little is said, that culminates in her being punished in a community where the reputation of girls and women can be so easily besmirched by rumours and lies. There is a mother who never feels at home in a r