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When you stop your car at a truckstop so you can read a bit more a book is really interesting! I am NOT going to tell too much of the story as essential in that story is the past getting revealed bit by bit. At the beginning of the novel we meet Scottish Miriam married to a doctor in rural Afghanistan. He is her second husband and things are less happy than they seemed at first. Bit by bit we get to know her history and that of her husband. It is clear the writer knows - later I discovered she indeed has firsthand experience- Afghanistan. As I met people from Afghanistan in the 90ties when I worked with refugees I was really interested in the cultural background of the story. But the author is ablessed storyteller as well. Miriam really seems real. And you hope nothing bad will happen to her. The mentioning of Dumfries made me smile. Not many people around where I live will know that small Scottish town but I have a friend who lives there and I guess she might even...
