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Three Girls
by Sally Dixon
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Three young women, three loves and three lives that are about to be changed forever. Caught up in a dangerous tide of extremism and racial tension, will Marianne, Sadime and Bea find what each of them craves?
Marianne is Scottish and seconded to a large multinational company in The Hague. Bright, attractive and with a high-flying job. She has it all – or does she? It’s not easy bringing up a young son on your own and she’s still struggling to get over a disastrous relationship – and then Logan arrives on the scene.
Bea and Sadime are old school friends and work for the same multinational as Marianne. Bea is Surinamer but she was born in Holland and benefited from a good education and an outward-looking family – that is until her brother was radicalized at the local mosque.
Sadime has fallen in love with a young Dutch boy but this is anathema to her strictly fundamentalist parents. They want to force her into an arranged marriage.
A Word from the Author
My book is not historical fiction or a gothic or supernatural mystery, nor is it a ‘steamy’ romance. It is set in a present day multicultural Europe where we live constantly with the threat of terrorism – will the Christmas market we go to, or the restaurant we eat at or the bus we are travelling on be the next to be bombed? Or is something much bigger planned?
For the three young women in my book, it is not only the political situation that worries them. What do you do as a single mum when the loathed father of your child suddenly turns up after ten years – and you haven’t told him he is a father? What do you do when your brother is radicalised at the local mosque and starts making your life hell? What do you do when your strictly fundamentalist parents insist on marrying you off to someone you hate?
The inspiration for my book came from the time I spent living in Holland and in particular, The Hague. It is a beautiful city and left many lasting impressions. My ideas also come from news items and the current political situation. There have been bomb and terror incidents in most countries in Europe in recent months and it has almost become a fact of life, as has the constant problem of young people being radicalised.
(Sally Dixon, March 2019)