Book review: A Stranger in Baghdad

Ramona Wadi- At times observer, at times participant, Mona is a link to several prominent characters, while carrying the burden not only of the family's dysfunction, but also her own trauma,

Book Author(s) : Elizabeth Loudon
Published Date : May 2023
Publisher : Hoopoe Fiction
Paperback : 444 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1649032850

An unexpected visit from former British diplomat and family acquaintance Duncan Claybourne to Iraqi-British psychiatrist Mona Haddad in 2003 sets the scene for Elizabeth Loudon’s novel, A Stranger in Baghdad (Hoopoe Fiction, 2023). The reader is plunged immediately into intrigue with the possibility of revelation, only to discover the many intricacies which bind all of the characters together, each a protagonist in their own right, and all against a backdrop of British colonialism and its aftermath in Iraq.

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