A British woman navigating Iraq's numerous upheavals in a politically fluid country.

A young white woman named Diane is thrust into the world of Baghdad in 1937 by these three words. She accompanies the doctor back to Iraq after falling in love with him in London as a 20-year-old nurse. As she manages her interracial marriage to Ibrahim, her in-laws, her well-known but politically delicate profession as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family, and eventually her bond with her own multiracial children, Baghdad comes alive in vivid detail.

If you read Full articles please visit us: https://www.washingtonindepend....entreviewofbooks.com