Compelling stories from female Afghan voices.

Using extracts from diaries kept in real time

during and following the fall of Kabul in 2021,

this book gives children personal and compelling snapshots

from a woman’s perspective.

Each chapter will help to provide children with a better

understanding of life as Kabul fell to the Taliban.

These are women on the cultural front line. Their

diary is an archive of yet another milestone in the volatile history

of Afghanistan. Financial Times

Fully illustrated in colour by a female Afghan artist

Produced in collaboration with UNTOLD Narratives

• a development programme for writers marginalized by

community or conflict

Packed with detail on different aspects of life in Afghanistan

both before and after the Taliban took over in

August 2021