Rose mcginty’s lyrical first novel explores this fascinating world portrayed so vividly that one can feel the grit of the sand between ones toes and fingernails

But there’s another side to the scheherazade world of aisling’s dreams – corruption sleaze tawdry ‘glamour’ and rampant consumerism especially with ‘designer’ this or that an obsession with illicit booze and a cultural chasm between east and west that seems wholly unbridgeable