<b>¿A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces¿ MADELINE MILLER</b><b>CHOSEN AS A BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR BY <i>THE GUARDIAN</i>, <i>BBC</i>, <i>OBSERVER</i>, <i>DAILY MAIL, IRISH TIMES </i>AND <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><b>Maryam and Zahra.</b>In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael. As Pakistan¿s dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by the change in the air, they make a snap decision at a party. That night, everything goes wrong, and the two girls are powerless to change the outcome.<b>Zahra and Maryam.</b>In present-day London, two influential women remain bound together by loyalties, disloyalties, and the memory of that night, which echoes through the present in unexpected ways. Now both have power; and both have very different ideas of how to wield it¿ Their friendship has always felt unbreakable; can it be undon