She is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey the US and the UK including St Anne''s College Oxford University where she is an honorary fellow. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. She writes in both Turkish and English and has published seventeen books eleven of which are novels. See moreĮlif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. They were the Sinner, the Believer and the Confused. Shirin, Peri and Mona, they were the most unlikely of friends. And finally, to the scandal that tore them all apart. To the house she shares with her two best friends, Shirin and Mona, and their arguments about identity, Islam and feminism.

To her dazzling, rebellious Professor and his life-changing course on God. The photograph takes Peri back to Oxford University, as nineteen year old sent abroad for the first time. A relic from a past - and a love Peri had tried desperately to forget. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag.

Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal.

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