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best of friends by Kamila Shamsie
The latest novel from the Women’s Prize for Fiction-winning author of opens in Karachi in 1988. It’s a time when anything seems possible for girls in Pakistan – the dictatorship has crumbled and Benazir Bhutto has just been elected. For best friends also explores broader themes of power – who holds it, what they choose to do with it and the injustice inherent in one human controlling the fate of another.
