Where the Light Falls

From a remote village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the glittering streets of Karachi, two young women from opposite worlds confront the lives chosen for them. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, Where the Light Falls is a sweeping story of love, courage, resistance and the cost of freedom.

'A breathtaking masterpiece' Hazel Prior

'I literally could not put it down!' Edel Coffey

'Rarely has a writer affected me so deeply' A.J. West

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Nineteen-year-old Sakina lives in a remote village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where tradition governs every part of a woman's life. Marriage, motherhood, obedience – these are the duties expected of her. But Sakina is bright, restless and in love, and the more she begins to question the rules of her world, the more dangerous that world becomes.

In Karachi, Amina appears to have everything Sakina does not: education, wealth, freedom, a voice. As a journalist, she is determined to expose injustice; as a daughter, she is expected to marry well, behave properly and forget the man she once loved. But privilege offers no protection from the judgements that follow women everywhere.

When their lives collide, Sakina and Amina are forced to confront the choices made for them, the men who seek to control them, and the price of refusing to disappear.

Moving between a rural village on the edge of change and the glittering, restless streets of Karachi, Where the Light Falls is a beautifully written, deeply moving novel about love, courage and resistance, and two women who must risk everything to be free.

For readers who love A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Covenant of Water and Pachinko