Fundamentally

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Pub Date 25 Feb 2025 | Archive Date 25 Feb 2025

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'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?'

When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway - accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues.

But then Nadia meets Sara, a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen, and she is struck by how similar their stories are. Both from a Muslim background, both feisty and opinionated, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines, Sara and Nadia immediately connect and a powerful friendship forms. When Sara confesses a secret, Nadia is forced to make a difficult choice.

A bitingly original, wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion, radicalism, and the decisions we make in pursuit of connection and belonging, Fundamentally upends and explores a defining controversy of our age with heart, complexity and humour - delivered by one of the most fearless and talented new voices in contemporary fiction.

'By normal, you mean like you? A slag with a saviour complex?'

When academic Nadia is disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, she decides to make a getaway - accepting a UN job in...


Advance Praise

‘I really, REALLY loved it – the voice, the setting, the plot, all of it. It’s original, warm, funny and engaging. A breath of fresh air.' Marian Keyes

'Funny, gripping and compassionate; Fundamentally is a truly original novel that you won’t be able to put down.' Dolly Alderton

'Tart, tender, trenchant, and hilarious, Fundamentally is a brilliant novel about faith and friendship that refuses to be any one single thing — because it is EVERYTHING. Nussaibah Younis is a genius.' Catherine Newman

‘Not only hysterically funny but trenchant and necessary. I loved it.’ India Knight

‘Absolutely hilarious — a Muslim Fleabag.’ Michelle Gallen

‘I really, REALLY loved it – the voice, the setting, the plot, all of it. It’s original, warm, funny and engaging. A breath of fresh air.' Marian Keyes

'Funny, gripping and compassionate;...


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ISBN 9781399623926
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 256

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