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Evie and Maryam's Family Tree

"A fascinating story that reveals lots about the past and the present."

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May 2025 Debut of the Month

Janeen Hayat’s debut novel tells the stories of four girls, two of whom live in present day England, two who meet in Delhi in 1929.

A family history project at school is the start of a tentative friendship between Evie and Maryam, and the extraordinary discovery that their great-grandmothers, Kathy and Sofia, were close friends, as revealed in coded letters between the two sent during and after the Second World War.

Both sets of girls are equally well-drawn and their stories, while specific to them, show readers so much about British rule in India, the fight for independence, Partition and women’s lives in their great grandmothers’ times. There’s also an equally sensitive and nuanced description of bullying and the courage needed to call it out.

Well-written and skilfully structured, the story holds our attention from start to finish and leaves readers with lots to think about, past and present, and characters to remember.

Andrea Reece

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