Honoured : survival, strength and my path to politics
Shah, Naseem2026
Books, Manuscripts
By the age of five, Naz Shah was used to the sight of her father beating her mother. At six, her father left the family for a teenage neighbour. At twelve, she was sent to Pakistan for protection from her mother's new abuser, only to be forced into marriage at the age of fifteen. Within a couple of years, her mother would be in prison, jailed for murdering the man who had subjected her to years of physical and sexual torture, and Naz and her two younger siblings would be left to fend for themselves.For years, Naz campaigned alongside Southall Black Sisters for her mother's release and was instrumental in achieving a reduction in her life sentence. This is the unflinching account of a young British Muslim woman coming of age and discovering the power of her own voice.
Main title:
Author:
Shah, Naseem, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2026.
Collation:
272 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399628471 (hbk)
Dewey class:
328.42092920.SHAH328.42B.SHAB SHA328.4209
LC class:
DA594.1
Local class:
328.42092 SHA
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4341108