Anthony McCarten — The English Harem
Vintage 2001 Paperback, 395pp. To spice up the boredom of working on a supermarket checkout and living in a crumbling tower block, Tracy imagines her dreary customers are the great and famous. She\'s not surprised when she\'s sacked, but what she isn\'t prepared for is her new job as a waitress at the Taste of Persia. Stepping into this world, she surpasses even her own imagination, falling under the spell of an unlikely suitor, Saaman Sahar, who has two wives already. Some tanning. (ISBN: 9781869414641). Good.