Sarvat Hasin: Hasin, S: Stage Fright, Gebunden

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'Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read' Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites
'A wonder of a novel'Amy Twigg, author ofSpoilt Creatures
'Luminous, tender and near mythic . . . This novel had its grip on my heart from the very first pages'Freya Bromley, author ofThe Tidal Year

Aliyah and Ava arrive in England from opposite corners of the world with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Instead, in the shadow of their historic, fairytale campus, they get the sense that they don't belong. The two form a Vita-and-Virginia-like bond, building a world full of stories that they write together. For a time, they are inseparable in their identity as 'strange girls'. When the end of university looms, they will have to return to the world where a devotion like this seems impossible to maintain.

Years later, Aliyah has everything Ava wants - a room of her own and a publishing deal - and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of what she really meant to Aliyah.

Was what they had - whatever you call it - real?
And what will become of the stories they tell themselves about one another?