Married by Force - Leila
Title: Married by Force
Genre: Non-Fiction / Memoir Author: Leila
Edition: Published by Portrait 2006 - Large Paperback - Good secondhand condition.
”I was 20 years old and dreamed of marrying for love”. Leila was born, brought up and educated in France, though her family came form Morocco. But her romantic dreams were shattered when she was forced by her father to marry a man she’d never met, fifteen years older than her, and whose language she couldn’t understand. Her father told her: “It’s him and no one else, and you’ll be happy with this man”. The husband she didn’t love beat her regularly in an attempt to force her into submission. With extraordinary courage, Leila fought back against the weight of family tradition to regain her liberty & dignity; and though it put her life in danger, she left her husband and later divorced him. She still loves her father despite the pain he inflicted on her, and the rift in her family causes her continuing anguish.
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