Playing Games: The gorgeous debut novel from the acclaimed author of How We Met
Huma Qureshi
Nov 2023 · Sceptre · Narrated by Shaheen Khan
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Huma Qureshi's gorgeous first novel: a tender and intimate story of two sisters caught up in the joys and pains of art and family
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'Warm and moving . . . Playing Games thoughtfully and elegantly considers what it means to be a sister, a mother and a writer'
Chloë Ashby, author of Wet Paint
'A riveting and evocative tale of two sisters navigating love, loss and desires'
Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country
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The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: a poignant story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal
Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a mess. But Hana wants children and her husband is hesitating, and perhaps her control is slipping.
Mira dreams of a creative life but she's stuck working at a local café. She hates her flatmate and Hana's dismissal of her writing but she can't find the right inspiration.
One night, a fight between Hana and her husband sparks something in Mira: the words ring in her head and she starts typing. But what can you borrow from your sister? And what can be forgiven?
Praise for Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love
'Impressive' Sunday Times
'Intimate and incredibly insightful' Stylist
'A deft, satisfying and poignant collection of stories . . . I loved it' Pandora Sykes
'Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn
(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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'Warm and moving . . . Playing Games thoughtfully and elegantly considers what it means to be a sister, a mother and a writer'
Chloë Ashby, author of Wet Paint
'A riveting and evocative tale of two sisters navigating love, loss and desires'
Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country
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The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: a poignant story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal
Hana has a perfect job, a perfect home, a perfect marriage. It is her younger sister Mira who is a mess. But Hana wants children and her husband is hesitating, and perhaps her control is slipping.
Mira dreams of a creative life but she's stuck working at a local café. She hates her flatmate and Hana's dismissal of her writing but she can't find the right inspiration.
One night, a fight between Hana and her husband sparks something in Mira: the words ring in her head and she starts typing. But what can you borrow from your sister? And what can be forgiven?
Praise for Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love
'Impressive' Sunday Times
'Intimate and incredibly insightful' Stylist
'A deft, satisfying and poignant collection of stories . . . I loved it' Pandora Sykes
'Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn
(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
About the author
Huma Qureshi is an award-winning writer, and the author of the memoir How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures, shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, and the short story collection Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and the Edge Hill Prize, both published in 2021. She lives in London.
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