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Jasvinder Sanghera turns her own traumatic experience of fleeing a threatened forced marriage into a courageous call to action. Through intimate interviews with women who have endured drugging, beating, imprisonment, rape, and terror within their homes, she exposes the harsh realities of honour‑based violence and forced marriage among South Asian communities in Britain. The book details the harrowing stories of Shazia, who was kidnapped and sent to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and Banaz, a young woman murdered by her family after she escaped abuse. Sanghera’s own risky work, often at great personal risk, underscores the broader struggle to protect and empower abused wives, supporting them in shelters and charitable initiatives.
First publish date: 2009
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Jasvinder Sanghera
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