Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

Download or read book Eight Months on Ghazzah Street written by Hilary Mantel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English couple's life in Saudi Arabia told through the eyes of Frances, the wife. She describes the heat, the ugliness and the menace of Islamic law. Men stroll in the street with rifles and from the apartment upstairs comes sobbing. It is nothing her Arab friends tell her, simply a millionaire's mistress, but Frances knows they are lying. Finally, there is murder.