Love in a Headscarf

Love in a Headscarf, Muslim Woman Seeks the One--------------------------------------------------At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta.One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly inlove with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islamand become a devoted Muslim.' Shelina is keeping a very surprisingsecret under her headscarf - she wants to fall in love. Torn betweenthe Buxom Aunties, romantic comedies and mosque imams, she decidesto follow the arranged-marriage route to finding Mr Right, Muslim-style.Shelina's captivating journey begins as a search for the One, but alongthe way she also discovers her faith and herself. A memoir with a hilarioustwist from one of Britain's leading female Muslim writers, Love ina Headscarf is an entertaining, fresh and unmissable insight into whatit means to be a young British Muslim woman.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Shelina Zahra Janmohamed writes columns for EMELmagazine and the Muslim News and regularly contributes to the Guardian,the BBC and Channel 4. She is much in demand as a commentator on radioand television and has appeared on programmes including Newsnight andThe Heaven and Earth Show. Her award-winning blog, Spirit21, is hugelypopular. She is a graduate from New College, Oxford. She lives in London.Love in a Headscarf is her first book.