Shadow Lives

Victoria Brittain is a respected journalist who tirelessly fought the US government on Guantanamo Bay in articles and books. Her work on women and children in conflict has transformed war reporting; subverting tired militaristic narratives. She has been a consultant to the UN on The Impact of Conflict on Women. She is a trustee of Prisoners of Conscience and the author of The Meaning of Waiting (Oberon, 2010), Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013) and co-author of Moazzam Begg's Enemy Combatant (2007).John Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972) won the Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing (Penguin, 1972), is understood to be a classic of art history. He contributed the foreword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).Marina Warner is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols, and fairytales. She contributed an introduction to Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist (Pluto, 2013) and the afterword to Shadow Lives (Pluto, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsForeword by John BergerIntroduction1. From Palestine to Guantanamo2. From Medina to Guantanamo3. From Palestine and Africa to house arrest in London 4. From Jordan to Belmarsh prison 5. From Egypt to Long Lartin prison6. The South London families7. Daughters and Sisters8. Families surviving the war on terrorAfterword by Marina WarnerEndnotesBibliographyIndex

'A searching, sensitive, and wrenching account of the ordeal of the women left behind, their torment, their endurance and courage, their triumphs over the cruel 'extension of prison to home''