from nicx27

This is a book of email correspondence between Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit. Bee is a journalist living in London and working for the BBC World Service, and she is put in touch with May Witwit, a lecturer in Baghdad. They became extremely close friends through their emails. This book showed a stark...

from bookbatty

I enjoyed this book a lot. Reading it made me think of the email friendship I have with a lovely lady who lives in another country. Shows how much we can support and encourage each other even if we don't live in the same country. recommend this book to anyone interested in reading about real people.

from kiwifortyniner

This book is the story of the emails that were sent between Bee Rowlatt in England, and May Witwit in Iraq. The two woman met through a phone call. Bee, a journalist was wanting to talk to someone about life in Iraq. A close friendship resulted and emails went back and forth over many years. They...

from helenleech

Fabulous true-life correspondence between a journalist in London and an academic in Baghdad. Great insight into Iraqi life during the war. But about 100 pages too long. Could have done with some judicious editing.

from HeatherLINC

In 2005 Bee Rowlatt, a London journalist, sent a chance email to May Witwit, an Iraqi English lecturer, and from it a deep and touching friendship develops between the two women. Talking about "Jane Austen in Baghdad" is the exchange of these emails allowing the reader to explore the lives of the...