Happy Place — Book Club Meets: I could have been radicalised! ISIS brides and teen angst, with Nussaibah Younis

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Book Club Meets: I could have been radicalised! ISIS brides and teen angst, with Nussaibah Younis

Happy Place · 8

Fundamentally tells the story of Nadia, an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, so she decides to get away by accepting a UN job in Iraq. Meanwhile, Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen, and Nadia is astounded at how similar they both…

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