The bestselling British author Kate Mosse shares her inspiring email exchange with a brave female writer living under Afghanistan’s brutal regime

When the British novelist Kate Mosse taught an online class to female writers in Kabul last November, organised by the UK-based organisation Untold Narratives, she couldn’t stop thinking about how different their lives were to hers.

Since the Taliban took back control in 2021, Afghanistan has once again become the worst place on Earth for women, whose rights have been stripped away. Women are barred from the workplace, and for the fourth year running Afghan girls are banned from high school.

While Mosse was about to go on tour, the women she had spoken to were forced into silence and imprisoned behind four walls. So she decided to write one of them a letter, the start of a remarkable correspondence with a woman who was risking her life to reply.

Read the full story in The Times HERE.