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A review by helenpickett
Would I Lie To You? by Aliya Ali-Afzal
4.0
Fazia is a British Pakistani married to a white man with their mixed race children.
They have an indulgent life, with Tom earning enough money to keep them very comfortably well off with two children in private schools, living in a large house in an expensive area of London and Fazia not needing to work.
That it until Tom looses his job. It’s okay though, they have a substantial emergency fund. Or have they?
The characters really pop out at you, giving a feeling that you know them well. Well enough that you know you like some and some you would really like to give a slap.
Fazia is a good person, all she’s done is tried to do her best. Fazia has struggled to come to terms (and her can blame her) with the blatant racism she suffered as a child. This has left consequences in her adult life. She recognises that some of the mothers are arrogant self obsessed snobs but wanted to blend in with them. Not to be ‘othered’. The sickening realism is, racism is still around in subtle undertones of peoples language.
I really felt for Fazia, the twists and turns of trying to make things better and how she just got into this spiral of disaster.
It was a page turner though, you just wanted to read a bit of good luck coming Fazia’s way right up until the very end when everything looked so bleak.
I’ve never really thought about the colour of the author before and look back at the many books I have read, have they all been white? Surely not.
This book was interesting though, with Muslim culture becoming part of the plot in Britain. This lady could be our neighbour and she has all of the internal struggles that just shouldn’t be an issue in 2021.
It was a refreshing insightful read and I do think that this is an author to look out for.
I would to thank NetGalley for the preview read in return for my honest review.
#WouldILieToYou #NetGalley
They have an indulgent life, with Tom earning enough money to keep them very comfortably well off with two children in private schools, living in a large house in an expensive area of London and Fazia not needing to work.
That it until Tom looses his job. It’s okay though, they have a substantial emergency fund. Or have they?
The characters really pop out at you, giving a feeling that you know them well. Well enough that you know you like some and some you would really like to give a slap.
Fazia is a good person, all she’s done is tried to do her best. Fazia has struggled to come to terms (and her can blame her) with the blatant racism she suffered as a child. This has left consequences in her adult life. She recognises that some of the mothers are arrogant self obsessed snobs but wanted to blend in with them. Not to be ‘othered’. The sickening realism is, racism is still around in subtle undertones of peoples language.
I really felt for Fazia, the twists and turns of trying to make things better and how she just got into this spiral of disaster.
It was a page turner though, you just wanted to read a bit of good luck coming Fazia’s way right up until the very end when everything looked so bleak.
I’ve never really thought about the colour of the author before and look back at the many books I have read, have they all been white? Surely not.
This book was interesting though, with Muslim culture becoming part of the plot in Britain. This lady could be our neighbour and she has all of the internal struggles that just shouldn’t be an issue in 2021.
It was a refreshing insightful read and I do think that this is an author to look out for.
I would to thank NetGalley for the preview read in return for my honest review.
#WouldILieToYou #NetGalley