I'll Take the Fire

<p><b><h2>FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR</h2><br></b><b>‘Leïla Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos.’ <i>TIMES</i></b><br><b>‘Slimani is a fearless writer.’ <i>EVENING STANDARD</i><br></b><i><br>Q: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?</i><br><i>A: I’d take the fire.</i><br><br>This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political ‘truths’ that envelop their lives.<br><br>Mia – the eldest, a warrior and a pariah, her sexuality a matter of scorn, something to be erased.<br><br>Inés – the youngest, a woman trying to carve out an identity in a Paris that derides and erases her, with no way back to Morocco, a homeland to which her father has warned her never to return, for her own sake.<br><br>As these sisters struggle to find a home - a place of safety and love that holds rather than binds - their lives as framed by their mothers and grandmothers before them will be a battle for their hearts and souls, and one they take on with every sinew of their being.<br><br><b>‘We feel deeply for the family caught in the middle of the conflict of history.’ SALMAN RUSHDIE, on <i>The Country of Others</i><br></b></p>