[1][2] The story was inspired by the author's personal experiences as the wife of the British Ambassador to Yemen.

The book received the 2013 Best Novel award in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

[3] On August 18, 2015, the Mark Gordon Company announced that Anne Hathaway would star in a limited TV series adaptation of the novel.

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