Oman. The ancient land of frankincense, windswept deserts, craggy mountaintops and turquoise seas.
Into this magical nation come three remarkable women, each facing a crossroad in her life.
Rachel, an American war photographer who is struggling to shed the trauma of her career. Now she is headed to Oman to cover a quite different story – for a glossy travel magazine.
Ariana Khan, a bubbly British woman who has rashly volunteered as Rachel’s ‘fixer’, a job she’s never heard of in a country she knows nothing about.
And Miza, a young woman living far from her beloved homeland of Zanzibar. As the second wife of Tariq, she remains a secret from his terrifying ‘other’ wife, Maryam. Until one day, when Tariq fails to come home …
As the three women journey together across this extraordinary land, they quickly learn that, in Oman, things aren’t always what they appear to be …
The Zanzibar Wife is a bewitching story of clashing cultures and conflicting beliefs, of secrets and revelations, of mystery and magic, by the author of the international bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.