Kamila Shamsie

Maryam and Zahra. 1988 Karachi : the dictatorship has fallen and a woman has come to power. For two fourteen-year-old girls whose world, until now, has revolved around George Michael, Jackie Collins, and the politics of school, life suddenly seems full of possibilities. Elated by change, they make a snap decision at a party that alters their lives forever. Zahra and Maryam. Three decades later in London, the now influential women remain bound together by the memory of that night.
But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock differences — and find out whether their friendship can survive.