Moggach wrote a short story called 'The Woman Who Carried a Shop on Her Head' in the 2010 collection Because I am a Girl by charity Plan International.

The short story appears in the prologue at the beginning of the novel and is set in Ghana and includes Asaf who charges weekly mobile phones to spread malicious gossip.

[1] Petra lives in Pimlico in London, is single in her sixties, and her romantic life has not panned out as expected.

But now finds herself falling herself in love Jeremy who is married to her best friend Bev and lives in West Africa.

Wang Lei then disappears and so Lorries heads to West Africa as her pregnancy looms...