SOMEONE LIKE HER by Awais Khan

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In Someone Like Her by Awais Khan, a young Pakistani woman faces unimaginable challenges and danger as she defies convention for love. This literary fiction novel is a breathtaking masterpiece, praised by Hazel Prior as “stunning, shocking, compulsive reading” and by A.J. West as “an epic story of love, power, and extraordinary courage.”

Set in Multan, Pakistan—a conservative city where an unmarried woman over twenty-five is considered a curse—Someone Like Her follows Ayesha, who at twenty-seven, is independent and happily single. Despite her family’s reduced circumstances, Ayesha has avoided an arranged marriage. When the powerful and wealthy Raza expresses interest in her, it seems like a solution to her parents’ prayers. However, Ayesha is in love with someone else, and her refusal to give him up leads Raza to seek unthinkable revenge.

Ayesha relocates to London to rebuild her life, where she meets Kamil, an emotionally scarred man with his own demons. Their burgeoning friendship offers hope for both, but danger still follows Ayesha in London. Forced to confront turmoil and make a life-altering decision, Ayesha’s story in Someone Like Her by Awais Khan explores themes of love, family, and courage, literature, capturing the essence of a woman’s fight against convention to find peace.