When the apricots bloom / Gina Wilkinson.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2020.Description: 312 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780733646409
- Families -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Sacrifice -- Fiction
- Betrayal
- Mothers and sons
- Sacrifice
- Undercover operations
- Secretaries -- Fiction
- Secret service -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Undercover operations -- Fiction
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- Artist -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Female friendship
- Secrecy
- Women
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Spies -- Fiction
- Women -- Iraq -- Fiction
- Iraq
- Iraq -- Baghdad
- Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | WIL | Issued | 22/04/2024 | 063398 |
"Friendship, trust, motherhood under the rule of a dictator in Baghdad"--Cover.
Includes reading group guide.
At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the secret police, who have ordered her to befriend Ally, the deputy ambassador's wife. Huda's former friend Rania, an artist, enjoyed a privileged upbringing as the daughter of a sheikh. Now her family's wealth is gone, and Rania is battling to keep her child safe and a roof over their heads. As the women's lives intersect, their hidden pasts spill into the present. Facing possible betrayal at every turn, all three must trust in a fragile, newfound loyalty, even as they discover how much they are willing to sacrifice to protect their families.