Short description
Modern British Muslim woman Shelina Zahra Janmohamed took the surprising decision to follow the traditional arranged route to finding a partner, despite having liberal parents and plenty of Western friends. This title charts Shelina's ten-year journey to find Mr Right, Muslim style.
Long description
'At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.' Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf - she wants to fall in love. Torn between the Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque imams, she decides to follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Shelina's captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but along the way she also discovers her faith and herself. A memoir with a hilarious twist from one of Britain's leading female Muslim writers, Love in a Headscarf is an entertaining, fresh and unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman.
Review
'[Shelina's] hilarious first book...charts her ten-year journey to find The One , Muslim style, with more than 50 dates and plenty of heartache, laughter and learning experience along the way.' Daily Mail 20090219 'Janmohamed shows her desire to nudge her culture in a more enlightened direction, while at the same time offering an insight into the life of a British Muslim woman.' (****) -- Sameer Rahim The Daily Telegraph 'Irreverent and feminine... hovers somewhere between chick-lit and memoir' -- Laura Barton Guardian 20090218 'A deliciously funny journey... witty and eloquent.' -- Remona Aly EMEL 200903 'An entertaining insight into what it means to be a young British woman' -- Nicola Tibballs Asian Express 200903