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The talking was over. The world held its breath. The Afghan people waited for the bombs to fall. So... Perhaps it wasn't the best time for a hard drinking, single parent, feminist, Fleet St., reporter, working for a notorious pornographer, to don a burka and illegally enter Afghanistan in search of a story. Meet Yvonne Ridley. Everything went smoothly until Yvonne's shoes started killing her. What happened next is the remarkable story of how personal and global cultures clashed because of an unruly donkey. Imprisoned by the Taliban for being, "A very bad woman, with a very bad mouth", Yvonne was unaware that back home, her mum was forcing the hands of the world's most powerful men by feeding the world's media tea, biscuits and ?snippets' over the garden fence. Had she been, Yvonne might not have risked the Taliban's moral outrage by hanging her knickers out to dry. Upon such flimsy threads the fates of individuals and nations sometimes hang.

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Author: Greg Cullen

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