FUNDAMENTALLY

'By normal you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?' 'Funny gripping and compassionate'Dolly Alderton'A breath of fresh air'Marian Keyes'Essential reading'Jonathan CoeNadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover Rosy. She decides to make a getaway accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid surrounded by bumbling colleagues. Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen. Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated from a Muslim background with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for. A bitingly original wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love family religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging Fundamentally upends and explores a defining controversy of our age with heart complexity and humour.