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Fundamentally: Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

Nussaibah Younis

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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Humour

A laugh-out-loud, unforgettable novel about ISIS brides, by debut author Nussaibah Younis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A NEW NAME TO WATCH OUT FOR' THE TIMES
'THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR' STYLIST
'ELECTRIC' GUARDIAN

Nadia is an academic who's been dumped by her girlfriend and disowned by her puritanical mother. Instead of going to therapy, she decides to accept a UN job rehabilitating ISIS women in Iraq.

Sara is a sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen. Nadia feels inexplicably drawn to her and, as it turns out, they have a lot in common. That is, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for.

A bitingly original, wildly funny and wickedly sharp debut, Fundamentally upends a defining controversy of our age with heart, complexity and humour.

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Praise for Fundamentally: Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction

  • Funny, gripping and compassionate - Dolly Alderton

  • Basically Bridget Jones in Iraq . . . Brilliant - The Times

  • Original, warm, funny and engaging. A breath of fresh air - Marian Keyes

  • This smart, punchy book is destined to spark conversation - Irish Times

  • A white-hot critique of international aid, with side-splitting prose - Nicola Dinan

  • Essential reading - Jonathan Coe

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