[1] Her second book, coming four years after her award-winning debut work Black Mamba Boy (2009), it was published by Simon & Schuster.

[2][3] Reviewing The Orchard of Lost Souls in The Independent, Arifa Akbar said: "If Mohamed's first novel was about fathers and sons ... this one is essentially about mothers and daughters.

"[5] The Lady summarized the novel by saying: "Exquisitely written, it weaves together unflinching descriptions of violent acts and moments of luminous beauty.

She exposes the vulnerability of women in a maledominated society, but also celebrates their awe-inspiring strength, and their redemptive power to build where men destroy.

"[2] In Anita Sethi's review in The Observer concluded: "This novel shows its author blossoming into her talent with her own innovative, at times pulse-quickening style, distilling startling language from loss.