title: Stolen: Escape from Syria
author:  Louise Monaghan 
description: Part thriller adventure, part tender mother-child drama, this memoir dramatizes todays Middle East conflict through the authors personal experience of capture and rescue. Divorced from Mostafa Assad, her abusive Syrian husband, Irish-born Catholic Monaghan focuses her life on their lovely six-year-old daughter, May. Then, after Assad kidnaps May from their home in Cyprus, Monaghan travels to war-torn Syria, pretends that she wants to make a go of their marriage, and suffers brutal abuse as his prisoner while she tries to plan an escape with her child. Always on her cell phone, she is in close contact with her loyal sister in Dublin and with the Irish consulate in Damascus, but many officials look the other way. Some smugglers help, but others take her money and abandon her. Eventually, though, with support from many sides, Christian and Muslim, she does finally make it across the border with her child. Set against the horrors of civil war, the domestic conflict brings home the personal suffering and the courage behind the news images. --Hazel Rochman
zlib_text: **ANNABEL KANTARIA** is a British journalist who now lives in Dubai with her
  husband and children. She has edited and contributed to women’s magazines and
  publications throughout the Middle East and returns regularly to the UK.
  
  >  _Also by Annabel Kantaria_
  
  Coming Home
  
  The Disappearance
  
  The One That Got Away
  
  Copyright
  
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  First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2018
  
  Copyright © Annabel Kantaria 2018
  
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  this work.
  
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  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
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