Shame : The bestselling true story of a girl's struggle to survive

Author: Sanghera, Jasvinder

Memoirs

Published on 21 April 2016 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages, n/a
132 x 198 x 21 | 228g

A new edition of the bestselling memoir Shame, including additional content from the author updating her story to the present day. When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home, grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. Shame is the heart-rending true story of a young girl's attempt to escape from a cruel, claustrophobic world where family honour mattered more than anything - sometimes more than life itself. Jasvinder's story is one of terrible oppression, a harrowing struggle against a punitive code of honour - and, finally, triumph over adversity.