RaveThe Observer (UK)Nuanced and affectionate ... Through Doucet’s writing you can taste and smell the rich fragrances and textures ... It’s impossible not to wonder about the fate of those people whose lives the events in Doucet’s book touched ... This is a beautifully written and observed book by one of the finest journalists of her generation. Doucet’s sympathetic writing is at painful odds with the absolutism into which the Taliban are again inexorably dragging Afghanistan’s people.
