It is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. As the country is unravelled by a civil war that will shock the world, the fates of the women are twisted irrevocably together. Intimate, frank, brimming with beauty and fierce love, 'The Orchard of Lost Souls' is an unforgettable account of ordinary lives lived in extraordinary times.
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa in 1981 while Somalia was falling deeper into dictatorship. In 1986 she moved to London with her family in what she thought was a temporary move but a couple of years later it became permanent as war broke out in Somalia. She was educated in London and went to Oxford to study History and Politics and she finally returned to Hargeisa, now in the new Republic of Somaliland, in 2008. She lives in London and is currently working on her second novel.
