The Evin Prison Bakers¿ Club

<B>16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran</B><BR> <BR><B><I>THE SUNDAY TIMES</I> BESTSELLER</B><BR> <BR>'A remarkable testimony to women’s bravery, compassion and solidarity in the harshest of conditions… Think Nigella crossed with Nelson Mandela.'<B><I> The Sunday Times</I>,<I> </I>Book of the Week</B><BR> <BR>'A fighting woman cannot be imprisoned because her voice is louder than prison walls. This book is proof.'<B> Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner</B><BR> <BR>How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a <I>tres leches</I> cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet – in spite of anything and everything – they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together.<BR> <BR>Sepideh Gholian, in prison since 2018, bakes scones, pumpkin pies and madeleines, alongside traditional Iranian sweets. <I>The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club </I>is a call to stand up for Woman, Life, Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.