A review by bookpossum
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel

4.0

I read this book with a mounting sense of dread, all the more appropriate in the light of recent events in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey. The fear and suspicion of foul play experienced by the protagonist would have had me running for the airport as fast as I could go.

Hilary Mantel lived in Saudi Arabia for four years, and frankly, I don't know how she bore it. The day she left Jeddah, she says in an interview at the back of the book, was the happiest day of her life.

Creepy and brilliant.