A place for us

** The New York Times bestseller **'To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza's heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure...

She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading.

I guarantee you will be different when you close the book' Sarah Jessica Parker A Place for Us catches an Indian Muslim family as they prepare for their eldest daughter's wedding.

But as Hadia's marriage -- one chosen of love, not tradition -- gathers the family back together, there is only one thing on their minds: can Amar, the estranged younger brother of the bride, be trusted to behave himself after three years away? A Place for Us tells the story of one family, but all family life is here.

Rafiq and Layla must come to terms with the choices their children have made, while Hadia, Huda and Amar must reconcile their present culture with their parents' world, treading a path between old and new. And they must all learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest betrayals.

This is a novel for our times: a deeply moving examination of love, identity and belonging that turns our preconceptions over one by one.

It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.