Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan

by Soniah Kamal

Alys’s and Darsee’s eyes met. ‘Darcy is overrated,’ Alys said. ‘Mr Knightley from Emma won my heart when he defended Miss Bates from Emma’s mockery.’

It was a truth universally acknowledged, Alys suddenly thought with a smile, that people enter our lives in order to recommend reads.