When author Samantha Herron visited Morocco for the first time, it changed the course of her life. On her return to London she abandoned a successful art career in order to study Arabic. She went on to spend time living with a family of former nomads, in a small village in the Draa Valley on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Morocco. Here she immersed herself in the language, culture and traditions of the country.
She became captivated by the ancient art of storytelling, which she found to be living and thriving informally amongst the community in which she was living. She began collecting stories that she was hearing and then found herself imagining and composing her own Moroccan stories.
This debut collection of stories, all set in contemporary Morocco, takes the reader on a journey into the hearts and minds of ordinary Moroccans and offers a glimpse into life in this magical and ancient land.
