Author: Chris Cleave

This whole book is one long letter to Osama bin Laden written by a woman whose husband and four-year old son were killed in a terrorist attack at a football stadium. Although the bombing in the book is a figment of the author’s imagination in a twist of fate the book was published on the same day as three very real bombs exploded in the London subway.

The narrator (I don’t think we ever really find out her name) begins by telling Osama how hard her life has been since the loss of her family. As she seems to be pulling herself up out of her depression she takes a job with the London police – the same bomb squad as her husband worked for. A confession from a lover sends her into another downward spiral toward madness.

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