About Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour:
What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies?
Written is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl’s struggle for freedom, and the uncovering of an intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets, betrayal and lies, in a family desperate to preserve their culture and honour.
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Author Bio:
D.A. Lee is a Bangladeshi-born British author, artist and poet, best known for her Novel ‘Written’ published in 2019. Raised in a small town in Lancashire, England, Lee describes the cultural challenges of growing up in a Bengali household whilst navigating a western world.
Lee’s Novel whilst fictional, draws on many of her own experiences of growing up in a Muslim family and explores the underworld of cultural expectations, arranged marriages, honour, abuse and domestic violence that often limit women’s choices.
Lee first started writing as a form of self-healing through the challenges of home life. The word ‘Written’ had become a poignant theme throughout the book, a word often expressed culturally to describe the notion of determinism and predestination adopted by most traditional Muslim families as a way of life. Lee takes us on a journey through her character Eleanor, a young girl caught between a web of family secrets and lies where she comes into conflict with these values.
Today Lee is an advocate for women’s freedom of choice and encourages women to speak out and seek help if they feel they are in danger.