Veil of Lies

VEIL OF LIES: Memoirs of a Muslim girl

This autobiographical story recounts the life of a young girl and her sisters growing up in the UK in a strictly traditional Pakistani Muslim family. From violent, abusive beatings to deception, manipulation and control, the young woman in this book grew up stifled, terrifying and oppressive environment, their childhood taken away by the fear they felt of those closest to them.

The story highlights the cultural divide between traditional Pakistani Muslim families and the western way of life and equality, and it provides in harrowing detail an account of the way Muslim daughters are regarded and treated by their families behind closed doors.

The young life of Jemina is fraught with fear, hatred and abuse, but throughout there is always hope and the knowledge that with a determined mind anything is possible.