Book Description - Ten years ago Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her internationally bestselling book SOLD, Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could obtain their freedom as well. A PROMISE TO NADIA will tell the extraordinary story of those ten years of the family's lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities of the refusal of their own government in London to help and of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organisation specialising in the recovery of abducted children. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Ten years ago Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her book Sold , Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could obtain their freedom as well. This book tells the story of those ten years of the family's lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities of the refusal of their own government in London to help and of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organization specializing in the recovery of abducted children.
A Promise to Nadia is the answer to the many thousands of letters which Zana has received from readers of Sold who, unbearably moved by her tale of courage and determination, have all been asking what happened next.