This astonishing novel opens with a chilling scene: two women wake from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in the desert. They have no idea who their captors are or what their intentions might be.
Soon they are joined by eight other women, and when heads have been shaved and strange uniforms donned, they are chained together and forced by guards to toil under a hot sun. As the days pass, the women learn about each other and what binds them to their suffering, as they share their hopes for rescue.
Only rescue doesn’t come, and when food begins to run low, it becomes apparent that they they must rescue themselves. A rattling good read and a stinging indictment of contemporary misogyny.
Words by Sara Bunny
