No Funeral for Nazia by Taha Kehar - Review and Blog Tour

Hello and welcome to my blog for my stop on the tour for No Funeral for Nazia by Taha Kehar! It is a pleasure to welcome you here. Please do have a click around and read some of my other reviews. I was intrigued by the premise of this book and liked it, so I'm glad to have joined in on the tour. 

As the title implies, Nazia has died and there is to be no funeral for her. She was living in the house of her sister, Naureen, and her husband, Asfand. The two sisters didn't always get on, and Nazia had had an affair with Asfand some years previously, but Naureen had cared for her sister as she was dying and now wants to enact her last wishes. These are that there is no funeral, but that several of her friends and relatives are invited over, alongside a mysterious stranger, for the evening. 

There is Nazia's daughter, Sabeen, now a woman in her mid twenties, who was estranged from Nazia. She had been living with Parveen, an old friend of Nazia's. Parveen is also at the party, as is Nazia's ex husband Salman. The final guests - apart from the mystery one, who I won't spoil - are a couple who were friends of Nazia too. They had all fallen out with her, though. Nazia was not a likeable person and had really screwed some people over - but they had also done wrong to her. In fact no one in the book is particularly likeable, which makes it an interesting read! 

I would recommend this book for fans of Kamila Shamsie and the like. I loved the setting and the secrets and lies that came out.