![]() ![]() ![]() To the house she shares with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about identity, Islam and feminism. To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as nineteen year old sent abroad for the first time. A relic from a past - and a love Peri had tried desperately to forget. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. ![]() Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and unexpected, bitter betrayal. It was an ordinary spring day in Istanbul, a long and leaden afternoon like so many others, when she discovered, with a hollowness in her stomach, that she was capable of killing someone. ![]()
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