The Flying Carpet to Baghdad

I read the book in one sitting and confess I cried more than once. (...) Jaber's story doesn't tie it all up with a neat pink ribbon, but it is all the more telling and universal for thatSunday Times

nothing I have read compares to Hala Jaber's mesmerising account of how her longing for a baby drew her into an intense, often agonising, involvement with two little Iraqi sisters orphaned by a U.S missile strikeDaily Mail

Far from the usual gung-ho memoirs by war correspondents, this is a heart-rending and highly personal story by an incredibly brave womanChristina Lamb, author of The Africa House and The Sewing Circles of Herat