SHAME

When she was fourteen Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. Shed witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages so she ran away from home grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. Shame is the heart-rending true story of a young girls attempt to escape from a cruel claustrophobic world where family honour mattered more than anything – sometimes more than life itself. Jasvinders story is one of terrible oppression a harrowing struggle against a punitive code of honour – and finally triumph over adversity.