She found new friends, mainly other single mums (Kerry, Chantelle, Khadija), as her old ones – the Pakistani Stepford wives – began to distance themselves. They were suspicious of her. After all, could they trust a divorced woman in a room with their husbands? And she did notice a shift in how the husbands treated her; how they moved a little closer, how they looked at her with leering, entitled, hungry eyes.
