Duty Free
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
As every woman knows, matchmaking is no easy job. Particularly when you're trying to find a girl for your dull, balding, freshly-divorced cousin and on top of that manage a house full of servants, shop for contraband Prada goods and attend parties every night. Not to mention the fact that your husband disapproves of everything you do, your city is under attack, and your friends can't be trusted - how is a girl to cope?
Originally published with the title Tender Hooks
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The lady of the house is a social-climbing shopaholic, yapping yenta, and mistress of malapropism, but her hilarious and unsettling story unfolds not in Manhattan but in Lahore, Pakistan a land of Taliban "beardo-weirdos," shifting social mores, and a growing middle class. Mohsin's first novel to be published in America offers biting social satire a news ticker runs atop each page with increasingly bloody and startling news-of-the-day and a tale of redemption, gently skewering her vacuous heroine as she transforms from elitist snob to social maverick. The evolution unfolds as the Social Butterfly is commissioned by her manipulative aunt to play matchmaker for shy, divorced cousin Jonkers. But with just two months to get him hitched to a woman with a fab "bagground," she invariably comes up with all the wrong choices: lesbian Tanya, and Tasbeeh, divorced daughter of a drug-smuggler. In the end, though, Jonkers just may find love all by himself. Mohsin writes firecracker prose and crafts a blazing voice for her Prada-mad heroine, a snappy vixen-type readers will recognize instantly, even if she's never got a cosmo in her hand.
Customer Reviews
Quality
This is quality chick lit of the very best kind. Entertaining, not taking itself seriously and with the lightest brightest characters. But like the very best of the genre the characters are beautifully observed and the humour is subtle, intelligent and often laugh out loud. Almost up there with Marian Keyes and that's not something I'd say lightly! Too short though. More next time please.