Just finished by Mark Hudson.

It’s an astonishing insight into the lives of rural Islamic Gambian women in the 1980s.

What slice of the world do I know less about?

The female circumcision rites were less grizzly than I expected. The male circumcision rites (obviously far less traumatic) were more grizzly. Children get butchered at about age 10.

The eloquent and honest book won both Somerset Maugham and Thomas Cook book awards.

I would recommend it certainly if you planned to travel to West Africa.