From the author of the Orange Prize short-listed author of THE TRANSLATOR and MINARET comes a lyrical and deeply moving novel set in 1950s Sudan. As British rule comes to an end, LYRICS ALLEY tells the story of the powerful and sprawling Abuzied dynasty that finds themselves torn between modernising influences and the call of traditions past. Moving from the villages of Sudan to cosmopolitan Cairo and post-colonial Britain, this is a sweeping tale of loss, faith and reconciliation that, despite its historical setting, dramatises many of the conflicts between modernity and tradition that are being fought within Islam today.