'Iris and Ruby' by Rosie Thomas
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'Iris and Ruby' by Rosie Thomas
Set in the surrounds of Cairo, 'Iris and Ruby' is a stirring story of family relationships spanning three generations. Fragility and forgetfulness have left 82-year-old Iris vulnerable and in the care of her manservant, Mamdooh. Stiflingly quiet and claustrophobic, Iris's Cairo house is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of her troubled granddaughter, Ruby, who, labouring under a fraught relationship with her family, has run away from England to seek solace with the grandmother she hasn't seen for many years. An unlikely bond arises as the two women open themselves up to one another and it is the need to recover Iris's past and solidify Ruby's present that leads the two women into terrible danger in the Egyptian desert
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