Dianne Noble: 4 books

In the oppressive heat of a Moroccan summer, an already fractured family is forced to re-examine its loyalties. Sisters Juliet and Portia haven’t seen each other in years. When they’re invited by their estranged mother, Miranda, to visit Fez, they’re shocked on arrival to discover she...

Rose leaves her Cornwall café to search for her daughter in the sweltering slums of Kolkata, India.In the daily struggle for survival, she is often brought to her knees, but finds strength to overcome the poverty and disease, grows to love the Dalit community she helps.But then there...

When she tries preventing the abduction and forced marriage of 16-year-old Layla, Beth defies her controlling husband, Duncan, and travels to Cairo where she finds the girl now lives in the vast necropolis known as The City of the Dead. She’s hiding from her abusive husband, and incites fellow Muslim...

When Polly’s husband is jailed for paedophilia, she flees the village where her grandmother raised her and travels to India where she stays with her friend, Amanda.Polly is appalled by the poverty, and what her husband had done, and her guilt drives her to help the street children of Kolkata....