A British wife navigates multiple upheavals in a politically shifting Iraq.

These three words plunge a young white woman named Diane into the world of Baghdad in 1937. A 20-year-old nurse, she falls in love with physician Ibrahim Haddad in London and follows him home to Iraq. Baghdad comes alive in vivid detail as she navigates her interracial marriage to Ibrahim, her in-laws, her high-profile but politically sensitive job as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family, and eventually, her relationship with her own biracial children.

The Haddads begin life in high society in an old-style residence built for royalty, complete with servants, a hammam (steam bath), and status. Author Elizabeth Loudon majestically dances you into the thick of it all, down to the “long black fringes” of Diane’s shawl and the essence of old Baghdad embodied in their first home:

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