Dancing with Darkness is an unforgettable portrait of daily life and death in the stricken country of Afghanistan. It is written from the unique perspective of a single, British, non-Muslim woman in Afghanistan. In Kabul the author experiences daily life through the net of her burkha, and when a friend is kidnapped by bandits, she joins the attempt to try to rescue him, on the way encountering drug traders, dining with warlords and fielding marriage proposals from Mullahs. In the course of journey she encounters the warmth and humanity of the Afghan people in their struggle to survive. It is they who give her an insight into the Islamic faith and culture she could never have learnt at college, enabling her to see a side of Afghan life seldom reported in the Western press. Written with compassion and insight, this is a book not about the war in Afghanistan, but about friendship, loss, but above all about freedom
