'A powerful tribute to female solidarity that you won't be able to stop thinking about' GLAMOUR
'An ode to how women support protect and uphold each other in a misogynistic world. Read then
pass it on' SYTLIST 'Took my breath away from the first page and did not let go of me till
the very last' NIKITA GILL 'There is no singular experience of womanhood and we create the
chain to remind ourselves of this. We stand beside each other in such a way that we may say
Tell me your story as a woman and yours and yours and yours . . .' One cold January day
Chimene Suleyman walks out of an abortion clinic to find her boyfriend has vanished. Later she
watches as her building's CCTV shows him calmly removing his belongings from her home erasing
himself from the life he has destroyed. Then she discovers he has done this before. But this is
not his story. Told with breathtaking clarity and tenderness The Chain is a love letter to the
sisterhood that formed despite (and in spite of) a man who deceived dozens of women. Suleyman
shows us just how fiercely women shelter and strengthen one another in a society that asks them
to sacrifice themselves for men.
