Shackled to my Family

<p><strong>10th ANNIVESARY EDITION:</strong> <em>The improved 2022 10th Anniversary edition includes a short interview with the author bringing the her life story up to date as well as the editor's notes on the origins of this bestseller.</em></p><p> </p><p>This is the true story of Samina Younis born in Britain to a strict religious Muslim family - a family that practices the tradition of forced marriage which they brought back with them from their village in Pakistan.</p><p>One of seven sisters and two brothers she was a bitter disappointment to her parents who desperately wanted a son; as a result she suffered terrible physical and mental abuse at the hands of both her mother and father; later she was to fall victim to continued abuse from her very own siblings.</p><p>At the age of just sixteen on a trip to Pakistan Samina was told that she must marry her second cousin a boy she had met only once in her life and for whom she had no affection whatsoever.</p><p>The writing of this book was Samina's only way of coming to terms with the life that she had been forced into the mental conflict over her enduring love for a mother now dead who even on her deathbed was compelled to dominate and control her future.</p><p> </p><p><strong>The book recounts in an honest unvarnished style her struggle against her family and her dramatic escape to a life of her own.</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>The publishers and author wish to thank the thousands of people who have already read this book and made it such a success in raising awareness of cruel and archaic practices forced on women and men around the world.</em></p>