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Full Moon Over

Kabul

Barbara Kastelin

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A romance and adventure story about a young Anglo-French language teacher, who suffers from alopecia
totalis,andherpupil, thesonof aTalibanCommander.
Setin the90s,thedescriptionof KabulunderTalibancontrolis evocativeandtheinterfacebetweenIslam
and Christianity is explored with sensitivity.
Story is set in Kabul and Bedfordshire.

Did Colette not understand that falling in love was forbidden?

Kabul, 1998

Colette takes a job teaching French to Afghan men in Kabul. She meets Abdul Hannan, a handsome and
courteousmanandherbestpupil, whoalsohappenstobeaTalibanCommander’sson.

DespitetheIslamistregime,ColetteandAbdulgrowcloseandfallinlove,whichinevitablycausesdrama.

Bedfordshire, 1999

Pursued by terroristthreat, Colettegoes home torural Bedfordshire. Withthehelp of herfriend Davina, a 6orist
in a dynamic London 6ower company, Colette starts a new life. But she cannot forget who she left behind in
Kabul,norwilltheTalibanlether.

When Gilbert, the lodger, steals her Kabul story for his own aggrandisement, she quickly learns that one should
not provoke a Taliban Commander.

Barbara Kastelin was brought up in Switzerland. She studied copywriting and design at the New School in
New York, worked for the UN Secretary-General and returned to advertising at Proctor & Gamble in Geneva. She
married a British diplomat and has two daughters and grandchildren. Barbara is the author of The Parrot Tree,
When Snow Fell, Hotel Belvedere and three collections of short stories. She is based in Bedford.

Publication Date: 28th November 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781836280507
Thema subject category: FRD – Modern and Contemporary romance
paperback 198 x 129 mm 352 pp Portrait Author location: Bedford

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